Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an… — 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
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes. — 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
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — 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
