« All One Quotes · Warren Buffett's Page
One Quotes by Warren Buffett
- Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring…
- We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
- Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is…
- The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes…
- Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more…
- Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby…
- Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what…
- In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills…
- One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
- A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
- The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose…
- I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now…
- We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could…
- The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think…
- The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in…
- Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one
- In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
- In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active,…
- If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability…
- There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare