Warren Buffett

Turnarounds seldom turn.

— Warren Buffett

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

— Warren Buffett

Our favorite holding period is forever.

— Warren Buffett

Value is what you get.

— Warren Buffett

“My favourite holding period is forever”

— Warren Buffett

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

— Warren Buffett

Never lie under any circumstances.

— Warren Buffett

Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

— Warren Buffett

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

— Warren Buffett

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

— Warren Buffett

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

— Warren Buffett

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

— Warren Buffett

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

— Warren Buffett

We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

— Warren Buffett

That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

— Warren Buffett

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

— Warren Buffett

It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

— Warren Buffett

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

— Warren Buffett

Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the…

— Warren Buffett

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some…

— Warren Buffett

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

— Warren Buffett

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper…

— Warren Buffett

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry -…

— Warren Buffett

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and…

— 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

I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular…

— 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've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy…

— 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 just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire…

— Warren Buffett

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes…

— Warren Buffett

I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he…

— Warren Buffett

When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,…

— Warren Buffett

Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good…

— Warren Buffett

The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,…

— Warren Buffett

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett