Warren Buffett Quotes

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.

Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

Since 2011, Groupon has lost $730 million, and Zynga has lost just over $1 billion. Twitter has been in business for 10 years and went public in 2013. Since then, the company has lost $2 billion.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

The stock market in Japan was half the world market and where has the Japan economy gone since the 1990s? Nowhere. They've been struggling for two decades in the aftermath of a massive bubble that's collapsed. They've tried to work their way out of it by printing even more money and it hasn't worked. Now, I'm saying this is what all the central banks are doing. There is no honest interest rate in the world today.