Warren Buffett Quotes

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.

I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.

Investing is simple, but not easy.

We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

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

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.

In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

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.