To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact,… — 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
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. — 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
Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — 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