“Always invest for the long term.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.”

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”

“I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.”

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.”

“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.”