If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its… — 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
