Warren Buffett Quotes

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.

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

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

I think it is crucial to diversify one's portfolio.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.

If the investor doesn't have enough time and skill to investigate individual stocks or enough money to diversify a portfolio, the right thing to do is to invest in exchange-traded funds that give you exposure to asset classes. It does make sense for the individual investor to think in terms of holding individual asset classes.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.

One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

We shouldn't think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest.

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.