Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near… — Warren Buffett American capitalism Copy Share Image
I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if… — Warren Buffett Abraham Copy Share Image
I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Company Copy Share Image
It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work… — Warren Buffett Care Copy Share Image
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there… — Warren Buffett God Copy Share Image
We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's… — Warren Buffett Confidence Copy Share Image
With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any… — Warren Buffett Absolutes Copy Share Image
Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in… — Warren Buffett Approval Copy Share Image
... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you… — Warren Buffett Big decisions Copy Share Image
When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party… — Warren Buffett Clock Copy Share Image
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated,… — Warren Buffett Buying Copy Share Image
I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc.,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP,… — Warren Buffett Country Copy Share Image
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
