Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment… — 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
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says… — 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
The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know… — 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
You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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
We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. — 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
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn. — 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
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart." — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth". — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn… — 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