When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet. — Warren Buffett Chance Copy Share Image
With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett Friendship Copy Share Image
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is… — Warren Buffett Annual reports Copy Share Image
You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible. — Warren Buffett Investing Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in… — Warren Buffett Agendas Copy Share Image
We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to… — Warren Buffett Faces Copy Share Image
Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Ceo Copy Share Image
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital… — Warren Buffett Bridges Copy Share Image
If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.… — Warren Buffett Big shots Copy Share Image
It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team.… — Warren Buffett Baseball Copy Share Image
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that… — Warren Buffett Approach Copy Share Image
That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief… — Warren Buffett Bandwagon Copy Share Image
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or… — Warren Buffett Advantage Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the… — Warren Buffett Bright future Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
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