To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — 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… — 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… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws… — 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 Copy Share Image
If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if… — 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 Copy Share Image
Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power. — Warren Buffett 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 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
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — 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 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
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
