Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth. — Warren Buffett Concentration Copy Share Image
Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even… — 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 measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable. — Warren Buffett Best way Copy Share Image
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a… — Warren Buffett Diamond Copy Share Image
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry -… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of… — Warren Buffett Congress Copy Share Image
I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy… — Warren Buffett Buying 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
Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out. — Warren Buffett Politics Copy Share Image
Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Fear Copy Share Image
Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history. — Warren Buffett Deregulation Copy Share Image
Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot. — Warren Buffett Funny Copy Share Image
When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge — Warren Buffett Bridges Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We will only do with your money what we would do with our own. — Warren Buffett Funny Copy Share Image
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image