Warren Buffett Quotes about Opportunity

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It is more important to say no to an opportunity, than to say yes.

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Important, Investing

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Encounters, Investing

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Track, Missing

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Warren Buffett

War, Opportunity, Investing Money

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Long, Management

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, America, Flow

Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Errors, Technique

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Warren Buffett

Rain, Opportunity, Gold

"25 Best Warren Buffett Quotes". The Motley Fool, www.fool.com. September 28, 2014.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Warren Buffett

Business, War, Opportunity

In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Years, Effort

We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

Warren Buffett

Opportunity, Interesting, Long