If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together… — 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
I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person… — 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
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
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — 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
I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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
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
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
I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw… — 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