Warren Buffett Age Quotes & Sayings

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. — Warren Buffett

By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America. — George W. Bush

I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense. — Warren Buffett

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19. — Warren Buffett

Get inspired by the things you do not by the things you expect to get". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door. — Marguerite Duras

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. — Warren Buffett

One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won't improve with age. — Warren Buffett

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants. — Roger Lowenstein

When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life. — Warren Buffett

He is also experienced. Though I don't know Ralph's age, I do know that, like many of our managers, he is over 65. At Berkshire, we look to performance, not to the calendar. Charlie and I, at 71 and 64 respectively, now keep George Foreman's picture on our desks. You can make book that our scorn for a mandatory retirement age will grow stronger every year. — Warren Buffett

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes. — Lucia Berlin

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization. — L. Neil Smith

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy. — Mike Rowe

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. — Warren Buffett

People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter. — Seth Godin

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you. — Warren Buffett

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts. — Lance Armstrong

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer. — Michael Gove

The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst. — Paul Krugman

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this. — Artie Lange

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then. — Warren Buffett

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age. — Warren Buffett

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on. — Liane Moriarty

It was a curiously happy picture: a dark-haired girl...sternly cautioning her bare-kneed younger brother not to be so loud in church, then bending down to whisper with a mischievous smile, 'If you can only sit still for five more minutes, once we are out of here I will play a great game with you. You will enjoy it.' Flash of merry dark eyes. 'There will be worms involved. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age? — Warren Buffett

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age. — Warren Buffett