Buying Strategy Quotes

Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.

We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.