Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. — Warren Buffett Excess Copy Share Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. — Warren Buffett Billionaire Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job. — Warren Buffett Inspirational Copy Share Image
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are… — Warren Buffett Anomalies Copy Share Image
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. — Warren Buffett Death Copy Share Image
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett Best investment Copy Share Image
Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as… — Warren Buffett Action Copy Share Image
On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that… — Warren Buffett Art making Copy Share Image
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something… — Warren Buffett Backbone Copy Share Image
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is… — Warren Buffett Ceo Copy Share Image
One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's… — Warren Buffett American people Copy Share Image
I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have… — Warren Buffett Economics Copy Share Image
If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw… — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound… — Warren Buffett Apprehension Copy Share Image
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. — Warren Buffett Focus Copy Share Image