Long Quotes by Warren Buffett

Always invest for the long term.

— Warren Buffett

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

— Warren Buffett

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

— Warren Buffett

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

— Warren Buffett

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

— Warren Buffett

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

— Warren Buffett

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good…

— Warren Buffett

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

— Warren Buffett

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

— Warren Buffett

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

— Warren Buffett

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

— Warren Buffett

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

— Warren Buffett

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

— Warren Buffett

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

— Warren Buffett

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually…

— Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With…

— Warren Buffett

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career…

— Warren Buffett

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a…

— Warren Buffett

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is…

— Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have…

— Warren Buffett

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

— Warren Buffett

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come…

— Warren Buffett

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a…

— Warren Buffett

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

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

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate…

— Warren Buffett

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now…

— Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing…

— Warren Buffett

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

As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can…

— Warren Buffett

One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as…

— Warren Buffett

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes…

— Warren Buffett

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

— Warren Buffett

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

— Warren Buffett

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

— Warren Buffett

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

— Warren Buffett

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things…

— Warren Buffett

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied…

— Warren Buffett

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

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have…

— Warren Buffett