{"id":107257,"date":"2016-01-03T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=107257"},"modified":"2016-01-01T23:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T21:13:26","slug":"10-warren-buffett-quotes-on-investing-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/107257\/10-warren-buffett-quotes-on-investing-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Warren Buffett quotes on investing and life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren Buffett, the American business magnate,\u00a0entrepreneur, and philanthropist\u00a0is widely considered the most successful investor of his time.<\/p>\n

Forbes put his wealth at approximately\u00a0$62billion, making him\u00a0the world\u2019s 13th richest man, with investments including\u00a0ketchup maker H.J. Heinz, and his\u00a0company\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway being the largest\u00a0shareholder\u00a0in Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n

BusinessTech shares 10 quotes on investing as spoken by Buffett over his successful career.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cOnly buy something that you\u2019d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cIt\u2019s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cIn the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cRisk comes from not knowing what you are doing.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cIf you\u2019re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cThe difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cYou know\u2026 you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.\u201d<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cDiversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.\u201d<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cIf past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.\u201d<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cTell me who your heroes are and I\u2019ll tell you who you\u2019ll turn out to be.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Warren Buffett, the American business magnate, entrepreneur, and philanthropist is widely considered the most successful investor of his time. BusinessTech looks at 10 quotes on life and investing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26,4900],"class_list":["post-107257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline","tag-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107261,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107257\/revisions\/107261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}