Quote

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

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
Perfect
Business
Pricing
Formula
Formulas
Mathematical

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
Warren Buffett
Image
I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.
Warren Buffett
Image
The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.
Warren Buffett
Image
I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.
Warren Buffett
Image
The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.
Warren Buffett
Image
Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.
Warren Buffett
Image
You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.
Warren Buffett
Image
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
Warren Buffett
Image
Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Warren Buffett
Image
The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Warren Buffett
Image
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett
Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
Warren Buffett
Image
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
Image
I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.
Warren Buffett
Image
When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
Warren Buffett
Image
We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
Warren Buffett
Image
A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
Warren Buffett
Image
I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.
Warren Buffett