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Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.
Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.
China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.
The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.
The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.
My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich
Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.