You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your em….

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

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

Don't sell on bad news..

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns..

Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make prediction….

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent..

The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get f….

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap..

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed..

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason..

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward..

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy..

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong..

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except ch….

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies..

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on t….

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down..

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, n….

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks..

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?.