Warren Buffett Quotes

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve ...

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves...

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those w...

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business...

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the...

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling s...

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no indi...

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wro...

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, inte...

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful peop...

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think abou...

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make ...

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the peo...

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend ...

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the bar...

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks...

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federa...

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re wi...

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their o...

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit ...

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people s...

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account i...

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad econ...

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavio...

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fear...

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, i...

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd li...

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a defic...

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press t...

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful...

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again...