We have to live with the rest of the world. And it's a mistake, in my view. Trade has generally developed in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital… — 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
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. — 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 the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — 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
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
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
If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — 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
Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce. — 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
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
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