Warren Buffett Quotes

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

I get very worried that people that are buying bitcoins don't really understand what they're participating in other than the headline stories that it keeps going higher and 'I want to make sure I don't miss this opportunity to make some money.'

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.