I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — 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
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if… — 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
... 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
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as… — 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
You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — 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