The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
In our view, though, 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
Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things… — 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
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities,… — 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
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]… — 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
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 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
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
At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if… — 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
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have… — 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
So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I… — 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
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