Words matter. These are the best Warren Buffett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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.
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.
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.’
Our favorite holding period is forever.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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 certain to depreciate in value.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
