Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.… — 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
[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as… — 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 sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — 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 least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price…” quote by Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/62b/warren-buffett-183_amount_w-e-think-the-very-term-value-investing_1594487.jpg)
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