Warren Buffett Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Investing Money, Effort

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

• Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

  Warren Buffett

  Baby, Successful, Investing Money

  "10 billionaires give their best advice on getting - and staying - rich" by Autumn Rose, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2016.

• You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

  Warren Buffett

  Effort, Nuance, Imperfect

• You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

  Warren Buffett

  Everyday Things, Effort, Ordinary

• In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Years, Effort

• I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

  Warren Buffett

  Practice, Long, Effort

• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

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