Warren Buffett Quotes
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351. “A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.”

— Warren Buffett

352. “You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.”

— Warren Buffett

353. “The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.”

— Warren Buffett

354. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

— Warren Buffett

355. “Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.”

— Warren Buffett

356. “Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.”

— Warren Buffett

357. “There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.”

— Warren Buffett

358. “We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.”

— Warren Buffett

359. “John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don’t try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.”

— Warren Buffett

360. “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

361. “Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.”

— Warren Buffett

362. “Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you’re not in too big a hurry.”

— Warren Buffett

363. “I make plenty of mistakes and I’ll make plenty more mistakes, too. That’s part of the game. You’ve just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.”

— Warren Buffett

364. “Of our 49 billion, we haven’t moved any to Bitcoin.”

— Warren Buffett

365. “You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.”

— Warren Buffett

366. “Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.”

— Warren Buffett

367. “Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill.”

— Warren Buffett

368. “All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”

— Warren Buffett

369. “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

370. “Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money – probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.”

— Warren Buffett

371. “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

— Warren Buffett

372. “My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.”

— Warren Buffett

373. “Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

374. “When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.”

— Warren Buffett

375. “What you really want to do in investments is figure out what’s important and knowable. If it’s unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.”

— Warren Buffett

376. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.”

— Warren Buffett

377. “The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.”

— Warren Buffett

378. “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

379. “We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.”

— Warren Buffett

380. “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

381. “Confidence in markets and in institutions, it’s a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don’t even think about it. It’s indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it’s gone for five minutes, it’s the only thing to think about.”

— Warren Buffett

382. “Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.”

— Warren Buffett

383. “While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.”

— Warren Buffett

384. “We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.”

— Warren Buffett

385. “It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.”

— Warren Buffett

386. “Does management resist the institutional imperative?”

— Warren Buffett

387. “I can’t promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.”

— Warren Buffett

388. “The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.”

— Warren Buffett

389. “I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.”

— Warren Buffett

390. “We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.”

— Warren Buffett

391. “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.”

— Warren Buffett

392. “I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.”

— Warren Buffett

393. “I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone – not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 – shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.”

— Warren Buffett

394. “Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.”

— Warren Buffett

395. “Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.”

— Warren Buffett

396. “Don’t settle for anything other than your passion – if you’re lucky enough to find it.”

— Warren Buffett

397. “You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

— Warren Buffett

398. “I don’t measure my life by the money I’ve made. Other people might, but certainly don’t.”

— Warren Buffett

399. “You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.”

— Warren Buffett

400. “To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.”

— Warren Buffett