Quotes By Warren Buffett

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.

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

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

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.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable.

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

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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

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.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.