If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines, — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it. — Warren Buffett Baseball Copy Share Image
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude. — Warren Buffett Giving Copy Share Image
I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again… — Warren Buffett Gold Copy Share Image
I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of… — Warren Buffett Better future Copy Share Image
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off… — Warren Buffett Choices Copy Share Image
Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift… — Warren Buffett Behavior Copy Share Image
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You… — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett Friend Copy Share Image
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns… — Warren Buffett Behaviour Copy Share Image
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett Books Copy Share Image
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you. — Warren Buffett Best thing Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't… — Warren Buffett Family Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett History Copy Share Image
I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ]. — Warren Buffett People Copy Share Image
I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Adult life Copy Share Image
You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. — Warren Buffett Growth Copy Share Image
You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes. — Warren Buffett Failure Copy Share Image
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