Warren Buffett Want Quotations

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.

When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.