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 my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum. — 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
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC… — 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
I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ]. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines, — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude. — 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
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 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
Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then,… — 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
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of… — 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 would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to… — 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
Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's… — 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
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
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
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
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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