Helping Time-Poor Investors: More Warren Buffett Inspiring Quotes

Warren Buffet is one of the world’s most influential people.

He’s an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist.

Here’s some of his inspiring quotes on investing and success:

Great Investors Don’t Diversify – “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
On Finding Honesty in Others “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
Appreciate Where You Came From “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Give Back to Society – “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
Don’t Make Investing Difficult –“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
Make Your Own Forecasts – “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”
Actions vs. Results – “You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
Invest Only in Companies You Know and Trust – “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
Manage Your Time Better – “You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
Seize Great Opportunities and Load Up the Truck “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”
Make Long Term Investments Over Short Term Ones “If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
Don’t Be Greedy “…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”
Spend Time on Personal Development “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”