Warren Buffett
- “I just sit in my office and read all day.”
- “Everybody can read what I read. It is a level playing field.”
- “I can think of no better way to become more intelligent than sit down and read.”
- “The advice I would give is to read everything in sight. And to start very young.”
- “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.”
Charlie Munger
- “Go to bed smarter than you when you woke up.”
- “As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.”
- “Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading.”
- “It’s just God’s gift. If you’re into self-education, there’s nothing like reading.”
- “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time―none, zero.”
Naval Ravikant
- “Read what you love until you love to read.”
- “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.”
- “I always spent money on books. I never viewed it as an expense. That’s an investment to me.”
- “The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.”
- “I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books.”
Bill Gates
- “Every book teaches me something new or helps me see things differently.”
- “Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”
- “Reading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding.”
- “Reading fuels a sense of curiosity about the world, which I think helped drive me forward in my career.”
- “This is one of the things I love about reading. Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge to explore.”
Elon Musk
- “I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents.”
- “I read books.” (when asked how he learned to build rockets)
- “If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything.”
Oprah Winfrey
- “Reading gave me hope.”
- “Books were my pass to personal freedom.”
- “I can’t imagine I could have become the person I am now without books.”
- “Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
- “You read about somebody else’s life, but it makes you think of your own. That’s the beauty of it. That’s why I love books.”
James Clear
- “The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.”
- “The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading.”
- “Read books that are relevant to what you want to achieve and reading will never seem boring. “
- “A recipe for getting more out of what you read: Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice.”
- “Reading can teach you the best of what others already know. Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know.”
Jim Rohn
- “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.”
- “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”
- “It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- “The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.”