I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement. — 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
Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I… — 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
It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting 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
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
