It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. — 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
The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it… — 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
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
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living. — 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
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes". — 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
