Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.Warren Buffett

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.Warren Buffett

You never know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.Warren Buffett

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities; integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.Warren Buffet

Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble investing.Warren Buffett

It take 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. if you think about that you'll do things differently.Warren Buffett

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.Warren Buffet

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.Warren Buffet

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.Warren Buffet

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting 9 women pregnant.Warren Buffett

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

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.Warren Buffet

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.Warren Buffett

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. Warren Buffett