If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America. — Warren Buffett Abundance Copy Share Image
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett Annual reports Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. — Warren Buffett Being crazy Copy Share Image
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett Business 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
In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is… — Warren Buffett Advantage Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear… — Warren Buffett Fear 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… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. — Warren Buffett Bargains Copy Share Image
The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
“If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.” — Warren Buffett Investing Copy Share Image
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett Criticism Copy Share Image
We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. — Warren Buffett Conclusion Copy Share Image
I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to… — Warren Buffett Age Copy Share Image
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment. — 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… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very… — Warren Buffett Apples Copy Share Image
I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve… — Warren Buffett Age Copy Share Image