I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing… — 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
With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, 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
