“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” — Warren Buffett Reputation Copy Share Image
Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful. — Warren Buffett Fear Copy Share Image
It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust. — Warren Buffett Credit Copy Share Image
Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in… — Warren Buffett Court Copy Share Image
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. — Warren Buffett Management Copy Share Image
Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one… — Warren Buffett Brilliant Copy Share Image
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. — 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 Business Copy Share Image
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 Family Copy Share Image
I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes. — Warren Buffett Company 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 Blessing Copy Share Image
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the… — Warren Buffett Capital gains Copy Share Image
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset… — Warren Buffett Advice 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
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 Doing what you love Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current… — Warren Buffett Company 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
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that… — Warren Buffett Approach 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 Customer Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief… — Warren Buffett Bandwagon 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
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or… — Warren Buffett Advantage Copy Share Image
We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right. — Warren Buffett Being busy Copy Share Image
Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image