Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — 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
Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — 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
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