Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — 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
I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. — 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
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — 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
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she… — 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
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin… — 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
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a… — 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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