Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
Warren Buffett
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Bucket
Buckets
Investing
Opportunities
Rain
Thimble
Gold
Infrequently
Opportunity
Buffets
Come
Rains
More quotes by Warren Buffett
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
Warren Buffett
I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.
Warren Buffett
The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
Warren Buffett
You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.
Warren Buffett
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
Warren Buffett
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
Warren Buffett
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.
Warren Buffett
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
Warren Buffett
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
Warren Buffett
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.
Warren Buffett
As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
Warren Buffett
We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
Warren Buffett
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.
Warren Buffett
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.
Warren Buffett
If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.
Warren Buffett
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
Warren Buffett
We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.
Warren Buffett
I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.
Warren Buffett
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
Warren Buffett