We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates… — 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
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound… — 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
