Warren Buffett Quotes

Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it's a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.