Warren Buffett Quotes

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

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).

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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

We talk about long-term patient investing, and that idea that slow and steady does win the race, that time can be your best friend when it comes to investing. That's why we have a turtle as a logo at Ariel.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

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

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

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.

Don't be buying out of emotion. Buy less if you love something but feel it's a risky item. We don't want overstock. And remember: No profit, no fun!

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.

Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.

It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it.

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

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

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

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.