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5 Types of People You Shouldn’t Trust According to Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett has spent more than eight decades studying business. He spent just as much time studying people. The figures in a balance sheet can be verified. A person’s character can often only be verified when it matters most, and at that point the price is already paid. Buffett’s warnings about unreliable people appear in […]
Warren Buffett’s ‘Mr. Market’ Rule: 5 Lessons About the Panicked Voice That Fools Even the Smartest Investors
Benjamin Graham invented Mr. Market to explain why stock prices fluctuate much more than the companies behind them. Warren Buffett took his teacher’s idea and continued to use it, letter after letter to shareholders, decade after decade, at Berkshire Hathaway. Imagine a business partner who shows up at your door every day. Some mornings he […]
Warren Buffett’s Noah Principle: How to Prepare Before the Storm
Warren Buffett has published a letter to shareholders almost every year since 1965, and the 1981 edition hides one of his most brutal lessons about risk. He called it the Noah Principle. The idea takes minutes to understand and a lifetime to put into practice. You get no credit for recognizing the danger. The merit […]
The 10 worst decisions you can make in your life, according to Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett built one of the greatest fortunes in history, but ask him directly about it and he rarely talks about stock picking. He talks about mistakes. Over seven decades of letters to shareholders, campus discussions and interviews, he returned to the same mistakes, ones he saw ruin people who were smarter than him. Below […]
6 psychological tips for developing self-discipline, according to Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett built one of the greatest fortunes in history on a foundation of discipline that most people cannot maintain. He has repeatedly implied that intelligence is common, while discipline is rare. “Investing is not a game in which the guy with an IQ of 160 beats the guy with an IQ of 130. Once […]
5 lessons from Warren Buffett on how to control your emotions
Warren Buffett built one of the greatest fortunes in history, but he never attributed his success to raw intelligence. His real advantage is emotional control, and he’s been talking about it for decades. He saw brilliant people destroy their careers and capital because they couldn’t deal with panic, ego, or greed. The following five lessons […]
Why Warren Buffett doesn’t wake up at 4 a.m.
There is a certain kind of ambition that worships revival. Tech CEOs and hedge fund managers talk about their 4 a.m. wake-up time the way others talk about marathon times: as proof of something. Warren Buffett doesn’t play that game. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO sleeps 8 hours a night and wakes up around 6:45 or […]
5 Ways to Take Care of Yourself First With Self-Discipline, According to Warren Buffett
Most people think of self-discipline as something you impose on yourself in order to produce more or earn more. Warren Buffett sees things differently. For one of the world’s greatest investors, self-discipline is about protecting what you already have: your health, your time, your emotional stability, your integrity. His philosophy is not about putting yourself […]
7 Financial Rules Warren Buffett Wants You to Know
When the “Oracle of Omaha” talks about money, people don’t just listen: they take notes. Warren Buffett’s financial philosophy does not rely on complex algorithms or get-rich-quick strategies. It relies on discipline, patience, and habits that seem almost too simple to implement. These seven rules cut through the noise and get to the heart of […]
Warren Buffett’s 7 principles for creating wealth (revealers)
Most people learn about money from people who aren’t rich. Warren Buffett has spent his life doing the opposite, studying what actually creates lasting wealth, and his findings contradict almost everything the financial industry teaches ordinary investors. Its principles are not complicated. They are simply different from what is normally taught about investing and business […]