When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.” — Warren Buffett Friend Copy Share Image
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. — Warren Buffett Borrowing Copy Share Image
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences. — Warren Buffett Consequence Copy Share Image
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Investing Copy Share Image
Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there… — Warren Buffett God Copy Share Image
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated,… — Warren Buffett Buying Copy Share Image
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in… — Warren Buffett Approval Copy Share Image
Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any… — Warren Buffett Absolutes Copy Share Image
When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party… — Warren Buffett Clock Copy Share Image
... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you… — Warren Buffett Big decisions Copy Share Image
You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
We will only do with your money what we would do with our own. — Warren Buffett Funny Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge — Warren Buffett Bridges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy. — Warren Buffett American economy Copy Share Image
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett Behavior Copy Share Image
For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price. — Warren Buffett Bargains Copy Share Image