A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it – who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet – that they can occasionally find one.
Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.
People calculate too much and think too little.
Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever...
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any practical result whatsoever, you’ve beaten them.
Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing.
We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
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 is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
Never invest in a business you can’t understand.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
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.