We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been… — 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
If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the… — 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
As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment… — 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
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. — 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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