Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current… — 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
In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and… — 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
