"If you’re in the luckiest one per..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
More by Warren Buffett
“The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.”
“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”
“The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.”
More on Responsibility
“It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.”
“... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.”
“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”