Warren Buffett Quotes

In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.