The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting,… — 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 Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — 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
And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper… — 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
Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values. — 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
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