Warren Buffett Quotes

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

A real collector does not sell.

The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?

One rule we have at my house is, be proud of what we invest in.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I don't watch my stuff.

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.

I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house - just parked there with no one driving them! Now I'm much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What's the point of having three cars just parked up when you don't need them?

We're constantly faced with decisions. A lot of times, the right ones take more work; it takes longer to see benefit: they're the long route.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.