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I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.
Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.
Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.
A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.
The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.
The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.
You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.
I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.
Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
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.
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.
I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.
I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.