Needs Quotes by Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.

— Warren Buffett

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

— Warren Buffett

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

— Warren Buffett

Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

— Warren Buffett

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the…

— Warren Buffett

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business,…

— Warren Buffett

If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.

— Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin…

— Warren Buffett

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary…

— Warren Buffett

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP,…

— Warren Buffett

Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things…

— Warren Buffett

If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one…

— Warren Buffett

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

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being…

— Warren Buffett

Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of…

— Warren Buffett

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

Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of…

— Warren Buffett

In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices.…

— Warren Buffett

What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an…

— Warren Buffett

You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila…

— Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a…

— Warren Buffett

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get…

— Warren Buffett

To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact,…

— Warren Buffett

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and…

— Warren Buffett

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

— Warren Buffett

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to…

— Warren Buffett

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

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the…

— Warren Buffett

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this…

— Warren Buffett

We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean,…

— Warren Buffett

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you…

— Warren Buffett

You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your…

— Warren Buffett

I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we…

— Warren Buffett

I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going…

— Warren Buffett