Warren Buffett Quotes

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

I don't want to outlive my money.

My wife and I invest very, very conservatively.

One can't be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others' hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic.

I would advise someone who has just retired to be something in the broad range of 50/50 stocks and bonds.

I don't like to discuss my investments.

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

Absolutely invest in retirement. You can always get a loan to get kids through school. I do not know of any loans to get you through retirement. The markets are seriously low from where they were (even though they've gone up 30 percent recently). Now is the time to be dollar cost averaging; the more money you put in, the more shares you buy. Save for your retirement, people.

You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.