With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you. — 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
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
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
There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor. — 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
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
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates… — 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
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — 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
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
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound… — 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
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get… — 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
We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. — 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
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a… — 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
If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of… — 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
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or… — 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
