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I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make
Sep 10, 2025
What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.
Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself.
The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.
If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Never invest in a business you can't understand
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
The best investment you can make is in yourself.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
You can't buy what is popular and do well.
The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
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.
I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
You're generally better off sticking with what you know.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The best investment opportunities are often scary.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Know what you own, and know why you own it.