If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in… — 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
In our view, though, 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
After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment… — 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
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 think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I… — 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
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean,… — 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
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity… — 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
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
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
I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular… — 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
![“After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles…” quote by Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a3/warren-buffett-183_ability_after-25-years-of-buying-and-supervising_1985322.jpg)
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