Warren Buffett Want Quotations

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be