The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you — Warren Buffett Life Copy Share Image
“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by… — Warren Buffett Pregnant Copy Share Image
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett Annual reports Copy Share Image
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. — Warren Buffett Being crazy Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett American business Copy Share Image
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP,… — Warren Buffett Country Copy Share Image
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America. — Warren Buffett Abundance Copy Share Image
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate… — Warren Buffett Life Copy Share Image
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett Criticism Copy Share Image
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. — Warren Buffett Conclusion Copy Share Image
“If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.” — Warren Buffett Investing Copy Share Image
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. — Warren Buffett Bargains Copy Share Image
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image