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
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
You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
WARREN BUFFETT
Forbes, 2 December 2013
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
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
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
WARREN BUFFETT
interview, CNBC, 2013
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
WARREN BUFFETT
The Motley Fool, 28 September 2014
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
The best investment you can make is in yourself.
WARREN BUFFETT
lecture at University of Florida School of Business, 1998
People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
WARREN BUFFETT
"My $650,100 Lunch with Warren Buffett", Time, 30 June 2008
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
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
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
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
WARREN BUFFETT
interview, CNBC, February 2009
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
WARREN BUFFETT
Forbes, 20 April 2014
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
WARREN BUFFETT
"My Philanthropic Pledge", The Giving Pledge, 2010