Warren Buffett Investing Quotations [Page 2]

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.