People Quotes by Warren Buffett

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

— Warren Buffett

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

— Warren Buffett

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

— Warren Buffett

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

— Warren Buffett

People should always know better.

— Warren Buffett

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

— Warren Buffett

It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

— Warren Buffett

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

— Warren Buffett

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the…

— Warren Buffett

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

— Warren Buffett

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

— Warren Buffett

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in…

— Warren Buffett

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

— Warren Buffett

For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what…

— Warren Buffett

I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try…

— Warren Buffett

At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn…

— 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

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it…

— Warren Buffett

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

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

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you…

— Warren Buffett

I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a…

— Warren Buffett

I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's…

— Warren Buffett

Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in…

— Warren Buffett

We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were…

— Warren Buffett

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

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate…

— Warren Buffett

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently…

— Warren Buffett

Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,…

— Warren Buffett

If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because…

— Warren Buffett

There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]…

— Warren Buffett

The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year…

— Warren Buffett

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes…

— 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

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

— Warren Buffett

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

— Warren Buffett

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

— Warren Buffett

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

— Warren Buffett

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

— Warren Buffett

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

— Warren Buffett