Warren Buffett Quotes

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).

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

I've learned that all investments have risk.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

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

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

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

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

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

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