Warren Buffett Quotes

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.

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

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Diversify your investments.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

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

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.