Warren Buffett Quotes

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

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.

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.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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.

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.

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

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Our favourite holding period is forever.

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt see Rule #1.

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.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Let us do or die.

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.