Top 500 Warren Buffett Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Investing is simple, but not easy.”

— Warren Buffett

102. “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”

— Warren Buffett

103. “In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces – never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.”

— Warren Buffett

104. “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

— Warren Buffett

105. “The key to success is emotional stability.”

— Warren Buffett

106. “Either they’re trying to con you or they’re trying to con themselves.”

— Warren Buffett

107. “Trust is like the air we breathe – when it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.”

— Warren Buffett

108. “Take the high road; it’s far less crowded.”

— Warren Buffett

109. “Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

— Warren Buffett

110. “If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can’t be flocking with the turkeys.”

— Warren Buffett

111. “The secret to happiness is having low expectations.”

— Warren Buffett

112. “Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.”

— Warren Buffett

113. “You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”

— Warren Buffett

114. “The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.”

— Warren Buffett

115. “Never depend on a single source of income.”

— Warren Buffett

116. “Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.”

— Warren Buffett

117. “Never test the depth of river with both the feet.”

— Warren Buffett

118. “Intensity is the price of excellence.”

— Warren Buffett

119. “Larger sums may be an advantage in some cases and a disadvantage in others.”

— Warren Buffett

120. “The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.”

— Warren Buffett

121. “Very successful people say no to almost everything.”

— Warren Buffett

122. “The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.”

— Warren Buffett

123. “Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.”

— Warren Buffett

124. “Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.”

— Warren Buffett

125. “Never risk what you have and need for what we don’t have and don’t need.”

— Warren Buffett

126. “If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.”

— Warren Buffett

127. “Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.”

— Warren Buffett

128. “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

— Warren Buffett

129. “We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”

— Warren Buffett

130. “Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.”

— Warren Buffett

131. “Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.”

— Warren Buffett

132. “It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.”

— Warren Buffett

133. “Never invest in a business you can’t understand.”

— Warren Buffett

134. “When people tell me they’ve learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people’s experience.”

— Warren Buffett

135. “If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.”

— Warren Buffett

136. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

— Warren Buffett

137. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”

— Warren Buffett

138. “They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.”

— Warren Buffett

139. “There’s no use running if you’re on the wrong road.”

— Warren Buffett

140. “The wise man once said, ‘Invest young.’”

— Warren Buffett

141. “My favorite holding period is forever.”

— Warren Buffett

142. “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

— Warren Buffett

143. “Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don’t be captivated by the siren song of the market.”

— Warren Buffett

144. “We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.”

— Warren Buffett

145. “If you can’t read the scoreboard, you don’t know the score. If you don’t know the score, you can’t tell the winners from the losers.”

— Warren Buffett

146. “Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.”

— Warren Buffett

147. “Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.”

— Warren Buffett

148. “Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.”

— Warren Buffett

149. “You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

— Warren Buffett

150. “Investment must be rational; if you can’t understand it, don’t do it.”

— Warren Buffett