Warren Buffett Quotes
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451. “Is management candid with the shareholders?”

— Warren Buffett

452. “It’s class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.”

— Warren Buffett

453. “Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.”

— Warren Buffett

454. “As one of my older friends says, “Nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be.” Let’s take a stab at it, anyway.”

— Warren Buffett

455. “We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.”

— Warren Buffett

456. “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

457. “I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I’m going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody’s had their say.”

— Warren Buffett

458. “We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’”

— Warren Buffett

459. “I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

— Warren Buffett

460. “You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can’t talk to people or write, you’re giving up your potential.”

— Warren Buffett

461. “If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won’t participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we’re in trouble.”

— Warren Buffett

462. “We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.”

— Warren Buffett

463. “I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.”

— Warren Buffett

464. “The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.”

— Warren Buffett

465. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.”

— Warren Buffett

466. “We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.”

— Warren Buffett

467. “If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn’t have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.”

— Warren Buffett

468. “I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.”

— Warren Buffett

469. “I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.”

— Warren Buffett

470. “We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.”

— Warren Buffett

471. “Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn’t do any good to look at the cards.”

— Warren Buffett

472. “It irritates the hell out of me but you can’t buy love.”

— Warren Buffett

473. “If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.”

— Warren Buffett

474. “The nature of democracy is such that when there’s – there’ll be revulsion, obviously, towards – that’s never going to happen again.”

— Warren Buffett

475. “I’m putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.”

— Warren Buffett

476. “Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: “Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth”.”

— Warren Buffett

477. “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

478. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don’t believe in or things I think are stupid.”

— Warren Buffett

479. “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

480. “As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country’s airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.”

— Warren Buffett

481. “If the world couldn’t see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world’s greatest investor but in reality have the world’s worst record? Or be thought of as the world’s worst investor when you were actually the best?”

— Warren Buffett

482. “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

— Warren Buffett

483. “There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.”

— Warren Buffett

484. “I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.”

— Warren Buffett

485. “We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.”

— Warren Buffett

486. “I spend twelve hours a week – a little over 10% of my waking hours – playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”

— Warren Buffett

487. “SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I’m in it, and I think you should be, too.”

— Warren Buffett

488. “There’s nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It’s what helped us grow over time. And it’s when debt gets out of control that you worry.”

— Warren Buffett

489. “The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance – even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward – even if he plays for a pennant winner.”

— Warren Buffett

490. “I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.”

— Warren Buffett

491. “When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.”

— Warren Buffett

492. “In one way, I’m sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I’d give a lot to mark my weight to ‘model’ rather than to ‘market.’”

— Warren Buffett

493. “When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

— Warren Buffett

494. “People always should know better. People don’t get – they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.”

— Warren Buffett

495. “We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses – we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.”

— Warren Buffett

496. “Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.”

— Warren Buffett

497. “It’s easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial...”

— Warren Buffett

498. “The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.”

— Warren Buffett

499. “Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.”

— Warren Buffett

500. “A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well.”

— Warren Buffett