Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow. — 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
Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all… — 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
If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear… — 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… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every… — 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