Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. — 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
