Warren Buffett Quotes

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

Business follows the flag …. Where there is stability and security, there is likely to be investment.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade

If our civilization is destroyed, as Macaulay predicted, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. Our great money-makers have sprung in one generation into seats of power kings do not know. The forces and the wealth are new, and have been the opportunity of new men. Without restraints of culture, experience, the pride, or even the inherited caution of class or rank, these men, intoxicated, think they are the wave instead of the float. and that they have created the business which has created them. To them science is but a never-ending repertoire of investments stored up by nature for the syndicates, government but a fountain of franchises, the nations but customers in squads…

The use of riches is better than their possession.

The Wall Street crash doesn't mean that there will be any general or serious business depression... For six years American business has been diverting a substantial part of its attention, its energies and its resources on the speculative game... Now that irrelevant, alien and hazardous adventure is over. Business has come home again, back to its job, providentially unscathed, sound in wind and limb, financially stronger than ever before.

I'd love to interview Mark Cuban!

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

I've repeated time and again that Arizona is open for business.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

I have two people that I mainly look up to: Magic Johnson is one of them. He just blew everything out of the water. He didn't make much money in basketball, but since basketball has been over, he's investing in the community and making a lot of money at the same time. The next one I look up to is Sean Combs, who has always been a hustler.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

Frankly, as an entrepreneur, you can do only one thing and be a part of it, but through investing in different ventures, you can be a part of something new and what others are trying to build.

My personal goal is to be a billionaire.

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

Business keeps luring me back to China.

The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

We can support innovators and entrepreneurs.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s.

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.