Warren Buffett Quotes About Management

Quotes about: Management

• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, School

• The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Management, Weak

• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

• In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Stress

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.125, Carolina Academic Press

• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

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

• If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Jewelry, Management

• When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Forever

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

• Never invest in a business you can't understand

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Buffets

• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

• Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

  Warren Buffett

  Fashion, Hands, World

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.48, Carolina Academic Press

• Is management rational?

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Management, Rational

• Is management candid with the shareholders?

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Management, Candid

• Does management resist the institutional imperative?

  Warren Buffett

  Doe, Investing, Management

• At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Risk, Faults

• Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Warren Buffett

  Dog, Thinking, Issues

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

• Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.

  Warren Buffett

  Might, Management, Investment

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

  Warren Buffett

  Guy, May, Management

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

  Warren Buffett

  Fields, Measurement, Dollars

• When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Reputation, Management, Economics

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

• All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

  Warren Buffett

  Organization, Promise, Management

• The extraordinary business does not require good management.

  Warren Buffett

  Good Man, Doe, Management

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

• People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

  Warren Buffett

  Golf, Skills, People

• I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Believe, Should Have

• One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

  Warren Buffett

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

• 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

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