Warren Buffett

"The best investment is in yourself."

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

"The three most important words in investing are 'margin of safety'."

"Diversification is protection against ignorance."

"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."

"Price is what you pay; value is what you get."

"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament."

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

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

"Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems."

"Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."

"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."

"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."

"An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes."

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything."

"My success has not been because I was born into privilege, but because I have a long attention span."

"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."

"Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre."

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."

"Honesty is a very expensive gift, don't expect it from cheap people."

"If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"The worst thing that happens to a CEO is they get a thick skin."

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

"I'm happiest when I'm working."

"It's better to hang out with people better than you."