LOVE

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” Sir William Osler

“I knew I wanted to work on Wall Street and, once I made up my mind, I never thought about any other career. It was not work, it was joy. I came to love the risk taking associated with trading and the rush that comes when the risk pays off.” Michael Steinhardt

“I have had two loves in my life; one is the stock market, the other psychology.” Leon Levy

“The most successful students are those that truly love what they are doing. Don’t go into this to make money.” Joel Greenblatt

“Good investors are data driven and enjoy the game. These are people doing what they love doing. It really is a game, a game they love.” Warren Buffett

"I love what I do. I love the investing process - the problems and the puzzle-solving and testing my wits." Dan Loeb

"I love what I do. I do it because it's fun." Stanley Druckenmiller

"I'm doing what I love doing." Paul Singer

“Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Seth Klarman

"I love my job." David Swenson

“I like it, I love the big picture. It’s what I love, it’s exciting.” Ray Dalio

"I would pay to have this job. I mean, it doesn’t get any better than this." Warren Buffett

“We both love the investment game.” Charlie Munger

"I am at an age where I don’t have to work. I work because I love the business and I love the business because when you do get a creative idea, it’s really exciting." Ed Wachenheim

“I’ve been doing this for thirteen years. And I love it. I’m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I’m working or whether I’m playing.” Peter Cundill

"To me, making money is an interesting game. The reason I continue is similar to why top golfers keep playing. They're not doing it for the money; it's for the love of the sport." Warren Buffett

"For me, my love for investing was linked to my fascination with researching and learning in detail what was happening in different parts of the world. The least happy people I know are those stuck in jobs they don't love." Jim Rogers

"What motivates me first is my love for the business." Mark Kingdon

 "I’m 70 and in great health with enormous enthusiasm. I love what I’m doing." Steve Schwarzman

"I love this business." Julian Robertson

"I feel my success comes from my love of markets." Ed Seykota

“I love what I do. Follow the advice of Henry Ford .. ‘the best way to make money is not to think about making money’. Do what you love, love what you do. Because If you do what you love and love what you do, with a little bit of luck you’re bound to be successful.” Leon Cooperman"

“In my first week as a trainee investment analyst (having just abandoned a landscape architecture apprenticeship) one of the founders and fund managers of my new employee sat me down for some homely advice. In his broad Scottish accent he said, ‘well, young Nick’, there was then a long pause and he began to smile ‘this job is the best fun you can have with your clothes on’. He was right. Zak and I love running Nomad.” Nick Sleep

"Do what you love. I'm the happiest guy in the world. Every day, I do what I love. My advice to everyone is to find something that you love. You'll become so much more successful at something if you love doing it." C.T Fitzpatrick

“It isn’t work at all. I love it. I don’t want to acquire knowledge for knowledge sake, rather for wisdom’s sake.” Frank Martin

"I love what I am doing and hope to be doing the same thing in 10 years time." Robert Vinall

"I also still love the intellectual challenge of understanding companies and industries, of figuring out what something is worth, of playing the psychological game well." Ricky Sandler

"I love what I do. I'm in the cockpit managing information, coming in from all over the world. I can hire people who help me understand it. I have friends and associates all over the world in every major financial capital. How many people are willing to take calls at 3am." Bruce Kovner

 “I get to do what I love to do every day.” Warren Buffett

"The reason I gravitated towards running Pabrai Funds is that I love understanding businesses. I love understanding how the jockeys who are running these businesses, how they think about them and what they are doing with them." Mohnish Pabrai

"I love what I do and it's good to have the discipline of outside investors." David Tepper

“If you’re enjoying what you’re doing, you know, you’re likely to get a better result than if you go to work with your teeth clenched every morning.” Warren Buffett

"I love the mental stimulation of investing and reading newspapers with investment ideas in mind.. I'm just enjoying myself while studying things, trying to look for a bargain, playing the game." John Spears

"I don't work to collect money. I work because I love what I'm doing." Warren Buffett

"I think you have to be in the business for the right reasons. It's really important to be very curious and have a passion for investing because there are so many people out there competing with you. It's really important to love what you are doing." Alex Sacerdote

“The best investors are passionate, although obsessiveness does not guarantee investment success.” Nick Train

“Make your passion and your work one and the same and do it with people you want to be with.” Ray Dalio

"Don't look for the money. Look for something you love, and if you're good, the money will come." Warren Buffett

"I love it... I think your classmates should pursue investing if they‘ll love it. That‘s why you should do it. The main reason you shouldn‘t do it is to make a lot of money, because number one, money isn‘t everything." Howard Marks

"Frankly, if you don't love it, there are much better things to do with your life. You can't trade because you think it is a way to make a lot of money. That won't cut it. No one who trades for the money is going to be any good." Colm O'Shea

"I simply love the markets. Ever since I was a kid, I liked playing games whether it is chess, bridge, backgammon, poker, or sports. I don't know a single great trader who doesn't share the same trait. If doing this was about the money, I would have quit a long time ago." Paul Tudor Jones

"Being a contrary investor - thinking and being ahead of the pack - is intellectually exciting and keeps me in love with the business." Ed Wachenheim

"I love what I do. I love finding investments that people have missed. I love the whole discussion and arguing cases with bright people, or reviewing an obscure company, or the best way to play that macro thematic on demand in that country. And I just hate to take no for an answer." Pierre Lagrange

"We have been through challenging cycles in the past and we always figure it out. That's the beauty of being in this business for more than 25 years. You come to understand the movements in the markets. There's never a dull moment and that's why I love it." Marc Lasry

"I have known plenty of investment professionals who didn't truly love the game and without exception they were all journeymen at best." Barton Biggs

“I’m doing today what I love to do and my greatest wish is to continue doing what I love—with people I love—for the rest of my life.” Francois Rochon

"One should only be in this business if you love this business." Mohnish Pabrai

“Charlie and I are not in any hurry to retire. He’s trying to outlast me, actually.” Warren Buffett

"One of the things I've learned is to stay with what you like to do rather than do something you don't like but think you can make money out of it." Walter Schloss

"Berkshire is my first love and one that will never fade: At the Harvard Business School last year, a student asked me when I planned to retire and I replied, "About five to ten years after I die." Warren Buffett

“I tell young people all the time, you have to find something you love. If you don’t love it, find something else. Because you can’t win a Nobel prize doing something you hate.” David Rubenstein

"The approach that worked for me was the title of a book written much later by my ex-sister-in-law, Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow." Ed Thorp

"I consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to dedicate myself to work that I truly love." Ken Griffin

“At its core, we love this business because every day is dynamic and there are competitive bones in all our bodies. We want to win, and we want to do this for performance. It’s not about raising billions and billions of dollars; it’s about beating the market and being proud of it.” Sam Stewart

"Everything I've done has been because I've loved doing it, because it was enthralling." Sam Zell

"It is my game. I want - I love to play the game. I will for the rest of my life play the game." Ray Dalio

“I love it. I love trying to solve puzzles. I love trying to find investments. I love trying to figure out what it is that is motivating a situation where we have a difference of opinion.” David Einhorn

"You have to love something to do well at it. There maybe exceptions on that, but it's an enormous advantageous if you absolutely love every minute of it. And the nature of it is that intensity adds to your productivity. I love thinking about Berkshire, I love thinking about its investments, I love thinking about its business and managers. It's part of me. You can't separate the game from the scorecard. The proceeds to me are unimportant." Warren Buffett

“If you're doing something every day for your life—which is hopefully a long time—and you're not enjoying it, then you're wasting your life.... We only get one life...The only thing that makes sense is to try to maximize our satisfaction with our lives. If you get to be 70, 80, 90 years old and you look back and say, 'Damn, I should have X, Y, Z'; it's unfixable. That's what you must think about. How will I feel about my life at the end?” Howard Marks

“The people who are really successful at investing do it for love, for the fascination and for the challenge. Those who are the people who are the most successful.” Joel Greenblatt

“If you get lucky, you find your passion early on, but you want to work at something you’re passionate about, and then you want to work to improve your skills in that. And I think if you do both of those things, I think you’re likely to do very well.” Warren Buffett