« All Return Quotes · Warren Buffett's Page
Return Quotes by Warren Buffett
- 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…
- The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years…
- The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.'…
- Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it…
- Activity is the enemy of investment returns.
- You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow…
- Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased…
- Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company…
- Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.
- Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business,…
- As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
- Returns decrease as motion increases.
- Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow…
- I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it…
- Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing:…
More Return Quotes
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams
- We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing… — Jean Klein
- The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker