Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that… — 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
If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write,… — 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