Quotes by Warren Buffett

About Warren Buffett:

Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the most successful investor of the 20th century. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and as the third wealthiest in 2015. In 2012 Time named Buffett one of the world's most influential people.
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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

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

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

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

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

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 w...

Warren Buffett

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Warren Buffett

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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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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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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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.

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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 presiden...

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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

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Warren Buffett

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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Value is what you get.

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

Warren Buffett

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Author Bio

  • NameWarren Buffett
  • DescriptionAmerican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
  • BornAugust 30, 1930
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionStockbroker; Financier; Businessperson
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom