Warren Buffett Quotes

"Let us do or die."

"I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me."

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."

"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

"The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it."

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business."

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

"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."

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

"We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

"Our favourite holding period is forever."