Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart." — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm… — 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
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots. — 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
