--- title: The Best 8 Warren Buffett Quotes You've Never Heard description: Famed investor Warren Buffett has offered insights into investing, spending and more for decades. Here are eight quotes you may not know. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Reporter url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 364 covers: - Investing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology also_seen_in: - The New York Times - The Wall Street Journal - CNN - Kiplinger Personal Finance - Time social: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-c-white/ published: '2026-11-10T21:29:03.000Z' modified: '2026-11-10T21:29:03.000Z' section: Investing word_count: 100 canonical: https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Warren Buffett photographed in a suit at a movie premiere](https://img.money.com/2025/12/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Quotes.jpg) Famed investor Warren Buffett, who retired as CEO of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2025, has earned the nickname “Oracle of Omaha” for good reason. For more than half a century, Buffett was a fountain of wisdom on investing, spending, saving, business, debt, inflation and more in the form of shareholder meetings and letters, as well as prepared and off-the-cuff remarks. Over the years, many of his quotes have been recycled and repeated by other corporate titans and business writers. Still, that leaves no shortage of aphorisms, insights, quips and zingers from Buffett. Here are some underrated ones. ![Warren Buffett And BofA CEO Brian Moynihan Speak At Georgetown University](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Last-Letter.jpg?quality=85) *("Don’t try and drive a 9,800-pound truck over a bridge that says… ‘Capacity: 10,000 pounds.’ But go down the road a little bit and find one that says, ‘Capacity: 15,000 pounds.’” (Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, 1996, while discussing the “margin of safety”))* ![Forbes Media Centennial Celebration](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Cash-Retirement.jpg?quality=85) *(“Big opportunities come infrequently. When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 2009))* ![Warren Buffett And BofA CEO Brian Moynihan Speak At Georgetown University](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Buffett-Rule.jpg?quality=85) *(“Our recommendation in respect to the use of advisors remains: ‘Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.’”(Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 2009))* ![Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Cash.jpg?quality=85) *(“The lesson for investors: The weeds wither away in significance as the flowers bloom. Over time, it takes just a few winners to work wonders.” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 2022))* ![Forbes' 2015 Philanthropy Summit Awards Dinner](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Hidden-Risk.jpg?quality=85) *(“In our view, it is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 2014))* ![Conference On Issues Affecting U.S. Capital Markets Competitiveness](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Rule-Retirement.jpg?quality=85) *(“Neither of us \[Buffett and Charlie Munger, former Berkshire vice chair \] feels any urgency to buy an estimated $1 of value for a very real 95 cents.” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 2019))* ![Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Boring-Stocks.jpg?quality=85) *(“At the Harvard Business School last year, a student asked me when I planned to retire and I replied, ‘About five to ten years after I die.’” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 1991))* ![The Best 8 Warren Buffett Quotes You've Never Heard](https://img.money.com/2026/10/Explainer-Warren-Buffet-Advice.jpg?quality=85) *(“I treasure those extraordinary Berkshire managers who are working well past normal retirement age and who concomitantly are achieving results much superior to those of their younger competitors… It’s hard to teach a new dog old tricks.” (Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 1992))* ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Investing", "item": "https://money.com/investing/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "The Best 8 Warren Buffett Quotes You've Never Heard" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/", "name": "The Best 8 Warren Buffett Quotes You've Never Heard", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2026-11-10T21:29:03.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/best-warren-buffett-quotes-you-have-never-heard-gallery/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2026-11-10T21:29:03.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "The Best 8 Warren Buffett Quotes You've Never Heard", "articleSection": "Investing", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2025/12/Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Quotes.jpg", "width": 1024, "height": 712, "caption": "Explainer-Warren-Buffett-Quotes" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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