Warren Buffett
I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.Collection: Running
It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.Collection: Helping Others
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.Collection: Lying
What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.Collection: Party
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.Collection: Thinking
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 us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.Collection: Believe
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.Collection: People
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.Collection: Journalist
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.Collection: Writing
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.Collection: Majority
Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.Collection: Silly
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.Collection: Business
In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.Collection: Thinking
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.Collection: Investing
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.Collection: Risk
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.Collection: Honesty
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.Collection: Investing
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Collection: Inspirational
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.Collection: Fear
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.Collection: Doubt
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.Collection: Investing
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.Collection: Success
We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.Collection: Intelligent
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.Collection: Investing
It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.Collection: Investing
If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.Collection: Investing
Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.Collection: Investing
We all make mistakes. If you can’t make mistakes, you can’t make decisions. I’ve made a lot bigger mistakes myself.Collection: Mistake
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.Collection: Integrity
Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.Collection: Different
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.Collection: Fear
It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.Collection: Country
It’s us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.Collection: Fun
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.Collection: Country