Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 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
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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 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