Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned… — 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
As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — 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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