Warren Buffett

"You've got to keep control of your time."

"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."

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

"The best investment is in yourself."

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

"Diversification is a protection against ignorance."

"When you find an opportunity where you can really add value, that's when you do it."

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

"Charlie and I view the Internet as a real threat to our business."

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

"Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity."

"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them."

"The best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at very high rates of return."

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

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

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."

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

"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

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

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

"I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no fool; that means I am an investor."

"In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it's a weighing machine."

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

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

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

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

"The best thing I ever did was to choose the right heroes."

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

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