The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long. — Warren Buffett Golf Copy Share Image
You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. — Warren Buffett Excess Copy Share Image
Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that… — Warren Buffett Affair Copy Share Image
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. — Warren Buffett Discipline Copy Share Image
We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form. — Warren Buffett Country Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Blacksmiths Copy Share Image
The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out… — Warren Buffett Feds Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Battlefields Copy Share Image
At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance… — Warren Buffett Being judged 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 Acquisition Copy Share Image
If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock… — Warren Buffett Buyers Copy Share Image
[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning… — Warren Buffett American workers 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
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett Advice Copy Share Image
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. — Warren Buffett Billionaire Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about. — Warren Buffett Doing what you love Copy Share Image
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. — Warren Buffett Ignorance Copy Share Image
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image