Warren Buffett

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Warren Buffett

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

Warren Buffett

Each of these companies will devote its entire efforts to a single state seeking to bring the agents and insureds of its area a combination of large company capability and small company accessibility and sensitivity.

Warren Buffett

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Warren Buffett

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill.

Warren Buffett

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don’t react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you’re behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

Warren Buffett

Exercise humility and restraint.

Warren Buffett

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.

Warren Buffett

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

Warren Buffett

First, many in Wall Street – a community in which quality control is not prized – will sell investors anything they will buy.

Warren Buffett