Investing Quotes

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

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

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 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.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.