Warren Buffett

“My favourite holding period is forever”

— Warren Buffett

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

— Warren Buffett

Never lie under any circumstances.

— Warren Buffett

Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

— Warren Buffett

The wise man once said invest young

— Warren Buffett

Always invest for the long term.

— Warren Buffett

Turnarounds seldom turn.

— Warren Buffett

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

— Warren Buffett

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

— Warren Buffett

The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

— Warren Buffett

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

— Warren Buffett

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

— Warren Buffett

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

— Warren Buffett

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

— Warren Buffett

Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

— Warren Buffett

You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.

— Warren Buffett

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you…

— Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

— Warren Buffett

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

— Warren Buffett

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering…

— Warren Buffett

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

— Warren Buffett

For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what…

— Warren Buffett

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the…

— Warren Buffett

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

— Warren Buffett

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of…

— Warren Buffett

If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because…

— Warren Buffett

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now…

— Warren Buffett

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We…

— Warren Buffett

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified…

— Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities,…

— Warren Buffett

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm…

— Warren Buffett

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial…

— Warren Buffett

Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,…

— Warren Buffett

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently…

— Warren Buffett

Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment…

— Warren Buffett

I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just…

— Warren Buffett

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business…

— Warren Buffett

The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The…

— Warren Buffett

[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take…

— Warren Buffett

We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will…

— Warren Buffett