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
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
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
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
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And… — Warren Buffett 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 Copy Share Image
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth". — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — 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
