You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have… — 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
The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks… — 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
I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the… — 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
The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I… — 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
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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
I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. — 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
I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back… — 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
It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and… — 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
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
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
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share