What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job. — Warren Buffett Inspirational Copy Share Image
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. — Warren Buffett Focus Copy Share Image
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. — Warren Buffett Doing the right thing Copy Share Image
I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like… — Warren Buffett Bailouts Copy Share Image
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Backbone Copy Share Image
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but… — Warren Buffett Children Copy Share Image
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter. — Warren Buffett Animal Copy Share Image
If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of… — Warren Buffett Congress Copy Share Image
An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Instead, he takes those coupons from his low-return bond and—if inclined to reinvest—looks for the highest return with safety currently available. Good… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about… — Warren Buffett Access Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a… — Warren Buffett Aberration Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've… — Warren Buffett Facts Copy Share Image
When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do. — Warren Buffett Ego Copy Share Image
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you. — Warren Buffett Generosity Copy Share Image
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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