Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
- Warren Buffett
Quotees Archive
Value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
- Warren Buffett
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
- Warren Buffett
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.’
- Warren Buffett
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
- Warren Buffett
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett
We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
- Warren Buffett
We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.
- Warren Buffett
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
- Warren Buffett
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
- Warren Buffett
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.
- Warren Buffett
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
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
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.
- Warren Buffett
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
- Warren Buffett
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
- Warren Buffett
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
- Warren Buffett
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- Warren Buffett
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.
- Warren Buffett
t’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
- Warren Buffett
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
- Warren Buffett
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
- Warren Buffett
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
- Warren Buffett
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
- Warren Buffett
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.
- Warren Buffett
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.
- Warren Buffett
The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.
- Warren Buffett
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage
- Warren Buffett
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money
- Warren Buffett
Rule No.1: Never lose money.Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
- Warren Buffett
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
- Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
- Warren Buffett
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett
Our favorite holding period is forever.
- Warren Buffett
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
- Warren Buffett
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked
- Warren Buffett
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
- Warren Buffett
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
- Warren Buffett
Make sure your ego lies in the performance of the company, not in the performance of the stock.
- Warren Buffett
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
- Warren Buffett
