Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.
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
Going
Assets
Investors
Price
Speculator
Object
Speculators
Objects
Investor
Game
Asset
Looking
Commonly
Games
Focusing
More quotes by Warren Buffett
I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.
Warren Buffett
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
Warren Buffett
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
Warren Buffett
Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
Warren Buffett
... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
Warren Buffett
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffett
I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Warren Buffett
The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
Warren Buffett
America should stand for more than just wealth.
Warren Buffett
Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.
Warren Buffett
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.
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
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.
Warren Buffett
We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.
Warren Buffett
You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.
Warren Buffett
We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.
Warren Buffett
I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.
Warren Buffett
I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.
Warren Buffett
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
Warren Buffett
Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
Warren Buffett
