Important Quotes by Warren Buffett

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

— Warren Buffett

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

— Warren Buffett

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

— Warren Buffett

The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

— Warren Buffett

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

— Warren Buffett

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

— Warren Buffett

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

— Warren Buffett

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power,

— Warren Buffett

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it…

— Warren Buffett

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance…

— Warren Buffett

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how…

— Warren Buffett

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget…

— Warren Buffett

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying…

— Warren Buffett

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that…

— Warren Buffett

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

— Warren Buffett

A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made…

— Warren Buffett

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the…

— Warren Buffett

I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and…

— Warren Buffett

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort…

— Warren Buffett

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have…

— Warren Buffett

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

There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service…

— Warren Buffett

... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you…

— Warren Buffett

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

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

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

— Warren Buffett

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

— Warren Buffett

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

— Warren Buffett

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

— Warren Buffett

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

— Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

— Warren Buffett

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

— Warren Buffett

It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and…

— Warren Buffett

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American…

— Warren Buffett

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

— Warren Buffett

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't…

— Warren Buffett

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being…

— Warren Buffett

... 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

I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't…

— Warren Buffett