"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get"
"the business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective"
"You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing"
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks"
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong"
"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful"
"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""
"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic"
"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote"
"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows"
"Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down"
"Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results"
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy profit from folly rather than participate in it"
“I like to go for chinces. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out”
"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing"
"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult"
"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well"
