A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this… — 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
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine… — 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
One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any… — 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
You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned… — 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
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
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — 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
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — 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
[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
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc.,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an… — 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… — Warren Buffett 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 Copy Share Image
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the… — Warren Buffett 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
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
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
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
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
![“[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going…” quote by Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2a/warren-buffett-183_amount_the-u-s-treasury-can-borrow-basically-un_2051464.jpg)
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