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… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage… — 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
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
If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there… — 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
I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says… — 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
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
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
It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend… — 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 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
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
So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait… — 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
I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up. — 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
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
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
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
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