Warren Buffett

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

Warren Buffett

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Warren Buffett

I don’t have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don’t have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

Warren Buffett

I don’t know that I could draw one that’s perfect. But I’d rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

Warren Buffett

I don’t need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn’t mean much to me. I don’t like to think about things like that. I don’t need 12 boats, or even the world’s largest boat with a crew of 80. I’d have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

Warren Buffett

I don’t read economic forecasts. I don’t read the funny papers.

Warren Buffett

I don’t want to hold out false hopes that the – by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn’t, Charlie. I mean, and it’s a big mistake to try and mislead people.

Warren Buffett

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were ‘performing’.

Warren Buffett

I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I’m going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody’s had their say.

Warren Buffett