Warren Buffett
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
Money is both everything and nothing. It is everything when you don't have it, but nothing when you do.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.