Warren Buffett Quotes And Sayings

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“I have pledged – to you, the rating agencies and myself – to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.”
– Warren Buffett

“I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.”
– Warren Buffett

“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.”
– Warren Buffett

“I put heavy weight on certainty. It’s not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they’re worth.”
– Warren Buffett

“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.”
– Warren Buffett

“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”
– Warren Buffett

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
– Warren Buffett

“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.”
– Warren Buffett

“If I were starting out in the auto insurance business, I’d try to copy GEICO. It wouldn’t work, but it’d give me the best chance.”
– Warren Buffett

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
– Warren Buffett

“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.”
– Warren Buffett

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
– Warren Buffett

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it’s a weighing machine.”
– Warren Buffett

“Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.”
– Warren Buffett

“Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.”
– Warren Buffett

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.”
– Warren Buffett

“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”
– Warren Buffett

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
– Warren Buffett

“It’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

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
– Warren Buffett

“It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.”
– Warren Buffett

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
– Warren Buffett

“Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that ‘Price is what you pay; value is what you get.’ Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.”
– Warren Buffett

“Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, “I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.” If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.”
– Warren Buffett

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
– Warren Buffett

“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
– Warren Buffett

“None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What’s required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell’s observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: Most men would rather die than think. Many do.”"
– Warren Buffett

“Of our $49 billion, we haven’t moved anything to Bitcoin yet.”
– 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

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
– Warren Buffett

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