People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. — Warren Buffett Doing the right thing Copy Share Image
You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long. — Warren Buffett Golf Copy Share Image
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should… — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the… — Warren Buffett Advice Copy Share Image
Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that… — Warren Buffett Affair Copy Share Image
We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial… — Warren Buffett Bears Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity… — Warren Buffett Betting Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The attitude of our managers vividly contrasts with that of the young man who married a tycoon's only child, a decidedly homely… — Warren Buffett Children Copy Share Image
To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view,… — Warren Buffett Economics Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he… — Warren Buffett Alphas Copy Share Image
It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs. — Warren Buffett Calmness Copy Share Image
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. — Warren Buffett Ignorance Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about. — Warren Buffett Doing what you love Copy Share Image
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image