WARREN BUFFETT QUOTES II

American businessman & investor (1930- )

Criticize by category -- praise by name.

WARREN BUFFETT

interview with Becky Quick, CNBC, 25 February 2019


After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them.

WARREN BUFFETT

annual letter to shareholders, 1989


Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

WARREN BUFFETT

Motivating Thoughts of Warren Buffett


You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

WARREN BUFFETT

Forbes, 2 December 2013


Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

WARREN BUFFETT

attributed, The Money Adventure


We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports. Clearly our kisses fell flat. We have done well with a couple of princes -- but they were princes when purchased. At least our kisses didn't turn them into toads. And, finally, we have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.

WARREN BUFFETT

annual letter to shareholders, 1981


Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.... People have been successful investors because they've stuck with successful companies. Sooner or later the market mirrors the business.

WARREN BUFFETT

interview, Forbes, November 1, 1974


Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

WARREN BUFFETT

annual letter to shareholders, 1991


Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

WARREN BUFFETT

The Motley Fool, 28 September 2014


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

WARREN BUFFETT

interview, Forbes, 20 November 2017


The best investment you can make is in yourself.

WARREN BUFFETT

lecture at University of Florida School of Business, 1998


If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

WARREN BUFFETT

"Buffett, at Clinton Fund-Raiser, Says Congress Favors the Rich", Bloomberg, 27 June 2007


It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

WARREN BUFFETT

interview, CNBC, 2013


I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge.

WARREN BUFFETT

attributed, The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy


People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

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"My $650,100 Lunch with Warren Buffett", Time, 30 June 2008


The most common cause of low prices is pessimism -- some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

WARREN BUFFETT

annual letter to shareholders, 1990


We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

WARREN BUFFETT

annual letter to shareholders, 1992


Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

WARREN BUFFETT

Forbes, 20 April 2014


The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

WARREN BUFFETT

interview, CNBC, February 2009


The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

WARREN BUFFETT

"My Philanthropic Pledge", The Giving Pledge, 2010