It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves -… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. — 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
We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion… — 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
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the… — 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
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