Warren Buffett Quotes

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

If you destroy the middle class for the sake of the economic institutions, you guarantee instability and danger.

Physical wealth has not necessarily been very secure.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

Money is a hazard.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

Far too many of my peers were taken in by the jet-setting rock star lifestyle and didn't realise the money might not last forever - but I have always had an eye on the future and invest in a syndicate to share risk.

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy.

The more money you make, the more times people sue you.

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it