Quote #8

'You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.'

More from Warren Buffett

  1. 'If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.'
  2. 'If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the gross national pr…
  3. 'If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investme…
  4. '[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand a…
  5. '[The perfect amount of money to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they …
  6. 'Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.'
  7. 'Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing…
  8. 'I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.'

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