Warren Buffett Quotes

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

Eventually, my W-2 income will wind down, and my investments can actually make that up.

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

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

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.

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent.

Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.

I've made some investments during my career that I'm happy with, so my life, talking financially, is definitely OK.

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.

With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

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).

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.