Berkshire Hathaway quotes

Explore inspiring quotes from the legendary Warren Buffett and the conglomerate he leads, Berkshire Hathaway. Discover wisdom and success in every word.

Never test the depth of a river with both feet.

- Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

- Warren Buffett

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

- Warren Buffett

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

- Warren Buffett

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

- Warren Buffett

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

- Warren Buffett

I believe in giving my kids enough so they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing.

- Warren Buffett

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.

- Warren Buffett

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

- Warren Buffett

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

- Warren Buffett

Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.

- Warren Buffett

Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

- Warren Buffett

Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

- Warren Buffett

You’d be making a terrible mistake if you stay out of a game you think is going to be very good over time because you think you can pick a better time to enter.

- Warren Buffett

You don’t pinpoint things. If somebody walks in this door and they weigh between 300 and 350 pounds, I don’t need to say they weigh 327 to say that they’re fat.

- Warren Buffett

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

- Warren Buffett

Wide diversification is used only by investors who don’t know what they are doing.

- Warren Buffett

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

- Warren Buffett

To make money they didn't have and didn't need, they risked what they did have and did need. And that's foolish. It is just plain foolish.

- Warren Buffett