Quote

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

Warren Buffett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Pitch
Game
Swings
Called
Waiting
Strike
Games
Stock
Everything
Investing
Strikes
Buffets
Market
Swing
Wait

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.
Warren Buffett
Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
Warren Buffett
Image
Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
Warren Buffett
Image
We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
Warren Buffett
Image
Focus alone is not enough putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
Warren Buffett
Image
The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
Warren Buffett
Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Warren Buffett
Image
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
Warren Buffett
Image
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Image
A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.
Warren Buffett
Image
Investment must be rational if you can't understand it, don't do it.
Warren Buffett
Image
If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.
Warren Buffett
Image
Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry
Warren Buffett
Image
Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.
Warren Buffett
Image
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.
Warren Buffett
Image
Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
Warren Buffett
Image
Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.
Warren Buffett
Image
Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Warren Buffett
Image
I never try to predict the market.
Warren Buffett