You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. — Warren Buffett Growth Copy Share Image
You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Adult life Copy Share Image
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ]. — Warren Buffett People Copy Share Image
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. — Warren Buffett Class Copy Share Image
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — Warren Buffett Capital gains Copy Share Image
What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett Reputation Copy Share Image
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffett Differences Copy Share Image
The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift… — Warren Buffett Behavior Copy Share Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett Friend Copy Share Image
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You… — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines, — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude. — Warren Buffett Giving Copy Share Image
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it. — Warren Buffett Baseball Copy Share Image
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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