If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. — Warren Buffett Elephants Copy Share Image
If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry. — Warren Buffett Auto industry Copy Share Image
If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. — Warren Buffett Emotion Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — Warren Buffett Economics Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth". — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart." — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter. — Warren Buffett Animal Copy Share Image
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is… — Warren Buffett Annual reports Copy Share Image
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett Friendship Copy Share Image
If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have… — Warren Buffett Atheism Copy Share Image
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
“If you see somebody with even reasonable intelligence and a terrific passion for what they do and who can get people around… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett American business Copy Share Image
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys. — Warren Buffett Bird Copy Share Image
Success is having people love you that you want to have love you. — Warren Buffett Love Copy Share Image
The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb. — Warren Buffett Banking Copy Share Image
When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving. — Warren Buffett Aa meeting Copy Share Image
I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but… — Warren Buffett Children Copy Share Image
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like… — Warren Buffett Bailouts Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Backbone Copy Share Image
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image