Warren Buffett is the undoubted king of investing. He knows about share market like very few others. He also has some quotes that are popular and share a wealth of knowledge .
- I’m 15 percent Fisher and 85 percent Benjamin Graham. The basic ideas of investing are to look at stocks as business, use the market’s fluctuations to your advantage, and seek a margin of safety. That’s what Ben Graham taught us. A hundred years from now they will still be the cornerstones of investing.
- That may seem easy to do when one looks through an always-clean, rear-view mirror. Unfortunately, however, it’s the windshield through which investors must peer, and that glass is invariably fogged.
- I’m going to be the Osama bin Laden of capitalism. I’m on my way to an unknown destination in Asia where I’m going to look for a cave. If the U.S. Armed forces can’t find Osama bin Laden in 10 years, let Goldman Sachs try to find me – Goldman Sachs acquired Federal Reserve approval to buy back Berkshire’s preferred stock in Goldman
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The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislatures. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital. It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation, or pays no income taxes during years of 5 percent inflation.
—Buffett
- There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
- Stocks are probably still the best of all the poor alternatives in an era of inflation – at least they are if you buy in at appropriate prices.
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I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s fantastic brand loyalty.—Buffett, quoted in Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
