Warren Buffett Quotes

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Don't bottom fish.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Fundamentals make the market.

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.

You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.