Warren Buffett

Never lie under any circumstances.

— Warren Buffett

Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

— Warren Buffett

The wise man once said invest young

— Warren Buffett

Always invest for the long term.

— Warren Buffett

“My favourite holding period is forever”

— Warren Buffett

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

— Warren Buffett

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

— Warren Buffett

Our favorite holding period is forever.

— Warren Buffett

It’s class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.

— Warren Buffett

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

— Warren Buffett

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

— Warren Buffett

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

— Warren Buffett

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

— Warren Buffett

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

— Warren Buffett

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

— Warren Buffett

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

— Warren Buffett

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

— Warren Buffett

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

— Warren Buffett

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

— Warren Buffett

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can…

— Warren Buffett

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

— Warren Buffett

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one…

— Warren Buffett

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and…

— Warren Buffett

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

— Warren Buffett

Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws…

— Warren Buffett

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out…

— Warren Buffett

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a…

— Warren Buffett

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering…

— Warren Buffett

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually…

— Warren Buffett

The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes.…

— Warren Buffett

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it…

— Warren Buffett

I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going…

— Warren Buffett

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

I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have…

— Warren Buffett

One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as…

— Warren Buffett

The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that…

— Warren Buffett

There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]…

— Warren Buffett

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

Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business…

— Warren Buffett

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is…

— Warren Buffett