Warren Buffet’s Most Popular Investment Quotes

With a net worth of over $78.9 billion, Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Investors from around the world are curious to know Buffett’s strategies which have made him so successful. Warren Buffett writings to his shareholders and his quotes on investing and life are a treasure to the investors. Buffet’s ideas about investment over the years have come to be regarded as some of the best investing quotes. Following are some of Warren Buffet’s quotes of all time.

1. “Rule No.1 is Never Lose Money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.”
2. “If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
3. “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”
4. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.”
5. “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”
6. “Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.”
7. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”
8. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.”
9. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”
10. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
11. “”Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
12. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
13. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
14. “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.”
15. “The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.”
16. “Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.”
17. “Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.”
18. “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”
19. “Our favourite holding period is forever.”
20. “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
21. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
22. “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
23. “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
24. “I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
25. “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favourite holding period is forever.”
26. “The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.”
27. “Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.”
28. “The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and think. If that doesn’t work, nothing else is going to work.”
29. “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars, I look for one-foot bars I can step over.”
30. “Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.”Need more investment insights? Contact experts at Fincomeinzo by calling 8527853048 or email us at info@fincomienzo.com.