Warren Buffett Quotes

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

People will invest in you only if they see some kind of return, and that's the dark truth.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

I think, in every situation, it's important to find the right balance. If you have to spend money, try and spend that money in the right way to take players with the right characteristics for your idea of football.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.