Quote

Is management candid with the shareholders?

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
Candid
Shareholders
Investing
Management

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
Warren Buffett
Image
Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that.
Warren Buffett
Image
During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.
Warren Buffett
Image
I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.
Warren Buffett
Image
You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.
Warren Buffett
Image
I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.
Warren Buffett
Image
I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
Warren Buffett
Image
When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.
Warren Buffett
Image
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Warren Buffett
Image
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
Warren Buffett
Image
My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.
Warren Buffett
Image
Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
Warren Buffett
Image
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.
Warren Buffett
Image
All day you wait for the pitch you like then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
Warren Buffett
Image
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett
Image
Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
Warren Buffett
Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
Warren Buffett