Warren Buffett Quotes

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

Music is 80 percent fun and 20 percent work. Video games, for me, is all fun.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.