“I am not a businessman, I am an artist.”

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.