Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will. — 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
The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns… — 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
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
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And… — 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
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc.,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have… — 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
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes". — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense. — 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
