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 Copy Share Image
I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. — Warren Buffett Death Copy Share Image
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. — Warren Buffett Attention Copy Share Image
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near… — Warren Buffett American capitalism Copy Share Image
I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work… — Warren Buffett Care Copy Share Image
If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need. — Warren Buffett Don't need you Copy Share Image
I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth. — Warren Buffett Certainty Copy Share Image
The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be — 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 America Copy Share Image
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had… — Warren Buffett Billionaires 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 Business Copy Share Image
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. — Warren Buffett Football Copy Share Image
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its… — Warren Buffett Animal Copy Share Image
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett Baseball Copy Share Image
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — Warren Buffett Dollars Copy Share Image
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. — Warren Buffett Bombs Copy Share Image
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things… — Warren Buffett Life Copy Share Image
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare. — Warren Buffett Ceo Copy Share Image
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's… — Warren Buffett Book Copy Share Image
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And… — Warren Buffett Bridges Copy Share Image
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. — Warren Buffett Funny marriage Copy Share Image
