Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow. — Warren Buffett Fun Copy Share Image
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Flower Copy Share Image
Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others. — Warren Buffett Advantage Copy Share Image
Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth". — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the… — Warren Buffett Credit Copy Share Image
Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut. — Warren Buffett Advice Copy Share Image
Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned… — Warren Buffett Crush Copy Share Image
Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry -… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — Warren Buffett Approach Copy Share Image
With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy… — Warren Buffett Buying Copy Share Image
Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there… — Warren Buffett Attractiveness Copy Share Image
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett Feminism Copy Share Image
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image