Business Quotes

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Never invest in a business you can't understand.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a haircut.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them.

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

In my business, you can't trust anyone because you don't know who is your friend. Becoming successful means, you become a prisoner.

I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.