Investment Choice Quotes

If you have the opportunities of Berkshire, an investment in gold is dumb.

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

People can put their capital to work where they like.

Backing a company is a serious business.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

I was approached by a company in San Francisco called Fantex. I did my due diligence on it. I tried to outweigh the pros and cons. Then I just made a business decision.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

I would rather buy Indian equities than the S&P 500.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know.

I chose to invest in railroads rather than airlines. More than 100 airlines have gone bankrupt in the last 25 years.

If there's one thing I wish I'd done differently it would be to have invested money in property.