Warren Buffett Quotes

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Never invest in a business you can’t understand.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy
when others are fearful.

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

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

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.

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

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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

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

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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

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

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Walt Disney Quotes

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to
get along without it.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Laughter is America's most important export.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

Nothing is impossible.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Adults are only kids grown up.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

Winston Churchill Quotes

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average

voter.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

A joke is a very serious thing.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin,

keep out of the way till you can.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a

bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Never, never, never give up.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough

to create interest.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"

Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss

terms, of course... "

Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"

Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"

Churchill:"Madam, we've already established that.

Now we are haggling about the price.”

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty,

you have no brain.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

He who dares, wins.

Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking your potential.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

William Shakespeare Quotes

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Listen to many, Speak to a few.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Time is very slow for those who wait,
Very fast for those who are scared,
Very long for those who lament,
Very short for those who celebrate,
But for those who love, time is eternal.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

If you love and get hurt, love more.
If you love more and hurt more, love even more.
If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

A light heart lives long.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is!

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Beware the ides of March.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…
If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

All's well if all ends well.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

What's done cannot be undone.

A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!
In form and moving, how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel!
In apprehension how like a god!
The beauty of the world!
The paragon of animals!
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Vladimir Lenin Quotes

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The goal of socialism is Communism.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics:
Freedom for slave owners.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just
because he is a scoundrel.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation
and inflation.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. 

Sometimes - history needs a push.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class).

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Crime is a product of social excess.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various
trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there
are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work

There is no substitute for hard work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Five percent of the people think; 
ten percent of the people think they think;
 and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

I never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun.

There is always a better way.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake.. Religion is all bunk.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I start where the last man left off.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Quotes on Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. -- Henry Ward

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ― Michelangelo

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ― Mark Twain

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? ― James Allen

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ― Napoleon Bonaparte

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ― Theodore Roosevelt

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, try to please everybody. ― Herbert Swope

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ― Charles O. Finley

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. That is the secret to success. ― Swami Sivananda

Success is a journey, not a destination. ― Ben Sweetland

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ― Chinese proverb

You just can't beat the person who never gives up. ― Babe Ruth

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ― Brian Tracy

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. ― Theodore Roosevelt

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he
hits bottom. ― George Patton

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
― Anthony J. D'Angelo

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. ― Pete Zafra

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ― Jim Rohn

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ― Bill Cosby

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ― Sven Goran Eriksson

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. — Theodore Roosevelt

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Many of life´s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas Edison

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Steve Jobs Quotes

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower

Stay hungry, Stay foolish.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I’m about to do today? And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence
is expected.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people.

I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being WalMart. We make it by innovation.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Arise! Awake! And Stop not till the goal is reached.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

The only test of good things is that they make us strong.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

We must keep our dignity before others. Unless we do that, we expose ourselves to insult.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.

When death is certain, it is best to sacrifice oneself for a good cause.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not.

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the
brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every
other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that
cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands
before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer,
that is all.

They alone live, who live for others.

Socrates Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

An honest man is always a child.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Be as you wish to seem.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself
sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live.

Which is better? Only God knows.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.