Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth". — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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