Warren Buffett Quotes
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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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.
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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.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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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.
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Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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But a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
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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.
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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Look for integrity, intelligence and energy.
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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.
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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.
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I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
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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.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.