Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.
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
Good
Treats
Think
Pretty
Thinking
Hope
Everyone
Jobs
Better
Equally
Done
Personally
Really
Treat
More quotes by Warren Buffett
What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
Warren Buffett
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
Warren Buffett
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
Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.
Warren Buffett
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
Warren Buffett
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
Warren Buffett
Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.
Warren Buffett
You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.
Warren Buffett
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Warren Buffett
I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.
Warren Buffett
In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
Never invest in a business you don't understand.
Warren Buffett
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.
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
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.
Warren Buffett
There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.
Warren Buffett
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
Warren Buffett
A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
Warren Buffett
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett