We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm… — 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
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — 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
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we… — 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
For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — 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
The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,… — 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
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 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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