Thinking Quotes by Warren Buffett

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others,

— Warren Buffett

I think confidence will come back.

— Warren Buffett

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

— Warren Buffett

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

— Warren Buffett

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the…

— Warren Buffett

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

— Warren Buffett

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

— Warren Buffett

I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

— 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…

— Warren Buffett

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

— Warren Buffett

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

— Warren Buffett

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

— Warren Buffett

I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like…

— Warren Buffett

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

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person…

— Warren Buffett

We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of…

— Warren Buffett

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the…

— Warren Buffett

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further.…

— Warren Buffett

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to…

— Warren Buffett

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC…

— Warren Buffett

With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that…

— Warren Buffett

It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is…

— Warren Buffett

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw…

— Warren Buffett

I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I…

— Warren Buffett

I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along,…

— Warren Buffett

To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact,…

— Warren Buffett

I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest…

— Warren Buffett

I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and…

— Warren Buffett

The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year…

— Warren Buffett

You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila…

— Warren Buffett

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

— Warren Buffett

Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

— Warren Buffett

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

— Warren Buffett

Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

— Warren Buffett

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

— Warren Buffett

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

— Warren Buffett

I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

— Warren Buffett

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

— Warren Buffett

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

— Warren Buffett

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines,

— Warren Buffett