Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. — Warren Buffett America Copy Share Image
It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying… — Warren Buffett Age Copy Share Image
Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's… — Warren Buffett Book Copy Share Image
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning… — Warren Buffett Conservatism Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Acquisition Copy Share Image
We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what… — Warren Buffett Access Copy Share Image
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will… — Warren Buffett Book Copy Share Image
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things… — Warren Buffett Life Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare. — Warren Buffett Ceo Copy Share Image
I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — Warren Buffett Dollars Copy Share Image
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. — Warren Buffett Bombs Copy Share Image
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its… — Warren Buffett Animal Copy Share Image
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett Baseball Copy Share Image
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing". — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. — Warren Buffett Funny marriage Copy Share Image
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And… — Warren Buffett Bridges Copy Share Image
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett History Copy Share Image
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you. — Warren Buffett Best thing Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't… — Warren Buffett Family Copy Share Image
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns… — Warren Buffett Behaviour Copy Share Image
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett Books Copy Share Image
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes. — Warren Buffett Failure Copy Share Image
I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
