Warren Buffett Should Quotations

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.