Quotes from Warren Buffett

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

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

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

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

When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

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

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.