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
You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand. — Warren Buffett Business Copy Share Image
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. — Warren Buffett Discipline Copy Share Image
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along. — Warren Buffett Blacksmiths Copy Share Image
We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form. — Warren Buffett Country Copy Share Image
Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited. — Warren Buffett Customer Copy Share Image
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett Difference Copy Share Image
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in… — Warren Buffett Court Copy Share Image
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. — Warren Buffett Management 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
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the… — 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
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government… — Warren Buffett Democracy 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
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
When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good… — Warren Buffett Care Copy Share Image
The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I… — 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
Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. — Warren Buffett Gold Copy Share Image
Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age. — Warren Buffett Age Copy Share Image
You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go. — Warren Buffett Brain Copy Share Image
The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor. — Warren Buffett Ability Copy Share Image
The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does. — Warren Buffett Ark Copy Share Image
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