Warren Buffett quotes

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

“Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”

— Warren Buffett

“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

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

— Warren Buffett

“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”

— Warren Buffett

“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

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

— Warren Buffett

“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

“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

“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.”

— Warren Buffett

“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.”

— Warren Buffett

“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.”

— Warren Buffett

“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.”

— Warren Buffett

“Value is what you get.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

“It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.”

— Warren Buffett

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”

— Warren Buffett

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”

— Warren Buffett

“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

— Warren Buffett

“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

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

— Warren Buffett

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”

— Warren Buffett