Warren Buffett
person on 40 shows · 288 statements across 168 episodes · said 4,293 times in 1,011 episodes since 2014
Founders 1017 
Capital Allocators 706 
the Knowledge Project 558 
My First Million 324 
Acquired 304 
20VC 162 
Top Founders 153 
All-In 152 
BigDeal 149 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 149 
TBPN 117 
Invest Like the Best 72 
David Senra 60 
the a16z Podcast 56 
the Neon Show 51 
Founder's Journal 36 
BG2 Pod 28 
We Live to Build 28 
Lenny's Podcast 24 
Startup Acquisition Stories 18 
American Optimist 17 
How I Built This 17 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 15 
Innovators & Investors 12 
Sourcery 11 
Cheeky Pint 9 
the Paul Morris Podcast 7 
A Product Market Fit Show 7 
Startups For the Rest of Us 6 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 5 
the MAD Podcast 5 
Big Technology 5 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
In Depth 3 
the Green Blueprint 2 
the Pitch 1 
Mixergy 1 
Another Podcast 1 
No Priors 1 
Catalyst 1
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Founders 1,017Capital Allocators 706the Knowledge Project 558My First Million 324Acquired 30420VC 162Top Founders 153All-In 15232 more shows
2026 487 mentions in 113 episodes 4 per episode
- Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai
- Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- How Henry Singleton Worked
- Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best
- Be ARTICULATE and Speak SMARTLY: Communicate Like A Pro
- SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- The 12 Investing Rules Billionaires Never Discuss Publicly
- 105 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 736 mentions in 207 episodes 4 per episode
- 400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
- 199 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1,260 mentions in 194 episodes 6 per episode
- Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett's Favorite Founder)
- Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- 186 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 410 mentions in 128 episodes 3 per episode
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- Charlie Munger (Audio) · Acquired
- Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- Alex Rodriguez: From MVP to CEO; Business Lessons from Warren Buffett & Magic Johnson | E1010 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Seth Klarman – Timeless Value Investing (EP.328)
- Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
- 120 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 377 mentions in 115 episodes 3 per episode
- Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- Building a Mini Berkshire Hathaway
- Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)
- Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
- Common Traits of Legends with Ndamukong Suh
- Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Walmart · Acquired
- 107 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 259 mentions in 69 episodes 4 per episode
- Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- #111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- MFM #169: How One Man Has Built 5, Billion Dollar Companies
- Bruce Martin – Still Lake Capital [Manager Meetings, EP.7)
- Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- Understanding mental model of Wealth Creation with Paras Chopra, Founder, Wingify |100x Entrepreneur
- 61 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 177 mentions in 46 episodes 4 per episode
- Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- #82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- Ted Seides – A Rational Reminder (Capital Allocators, EP.121)
- #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- 38 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 193 mentions in 38 episodes 5 per episode
- Thomas Russo – All About Berkshire Hathaway (Capital Allocators, EP.89)
- Ted Seides – Interviewing and Manager Meetings (Capital Allocators, EP.94)
- a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- #70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
- Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 105 mentions in 38 episodes 3 per episode
- #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- Steven Galbraith – In the Boardroom (Capital Allocators, EP.48)
- #36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- Rick Selvala - Harvesting Volatility (Capital Allocators, EP.41)
- Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- 1071 His AI Tool Tells You How To Price Realtime
- 1135 This app lets you use real money to compete with your friends in crypto, stocks
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 225 mentions in 40 episodes 6 per episode
- The Bet with Buffett (Capital Allocators, EP.05)
- Thomas Russo – Buy and Hold...and Then What (Capital Allocators, EP.16)
- EP 572: 400,000 Books Sold Teach How to Take $1000 to $1.5m with Author Phil Town
- 728: With $24m Raised, Why is He Buildling FinTech On Back of Advisors?
- Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
- Josh Brown – When Witchcraft Failed (Capital Allocators, EP.06)
- 670: Betterment Vs. Vanguard, Betterment Passes 200,000 Investors, $8B in AUM with CEO Jon Stein
- Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)
- 32 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 38 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires
- EP 513: $50M Raised, Helping 50k Customers Get Accurate Contact Data with FullContact CEO Bart Lorang
- 20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- What if You Could Invest $100k Once, Make $20k/Year Forever? EP 251: Jefferson Lilly
- Smart Way to Buy Profitable Land with Mark Podolsky of Landgeek
- EP 524: Podium Hits $1m MRR in 12 Months, $4m Raised with 6500 SMB Customers sub 1% Churn with CEO Eric Rea
- EP 511: How to Pivot $50K MRR SaaS Company with Ian Cullen CEO of Leadiro
- 20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 25 mentions in 2 episodes 13 per episode
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The latest 60 statements about Warren Buffett, every show
Buffett: Henry Singleton had the best capital deployment record in American business
“Here's a quote from Warren Buffett and Buffett said, Henry Singleton, Has the best operating and capital deployment record in American business. If one took the hundred top business school graduates and made a composite of their triumphs, their record would no…”
Buffett's management tenets were first used by Henry Singleton at Teledyne
“Many of the distinctive tenants of Warren Buffett's unique approach to managing Berkshire Hathaway were first employed by Singleton at Teledyne. In fact, Singleton can be seen as a proto-Buffett, and there are uncanny similarities between the two.”
Insurance float was central to both Teledyne's and Berkshire's growth
“Both Singleton and Buffett recognized the potential to invest insurance company float to create shareholder value. And for both companies, insurance was the largest and most important business.”
Munger: Raw Intellect Matters Less in Investing Than Decades of Accumulated Focus
“He concluded, Henry was a lot smarter, but Warren had thought about investments a lot longer.”
Warren Buffett made more on Ogilvy's agency than David Ogilvy did
“In fact, interesting enough, Buffett made more money on Ogilvy's company than Ogilvy did because Ogilvy got scared and sold his equity too early before it appreciated.”
Malka: Buffett's value is his repeatable decision framework across any market
“What you learn from it is not the decisions he makes, it's how in any environment he repeats the same pattern of decision-making process.
And that's the most important thing that you get from Reddit.”
Shkreli: Prime brokers rely on Ken Griffin as Wall Street's liquidity backstop
“The prime brokers, the Goldman's and Bank of America's, they do so much business with Citadel, and they've done this before where they know who to go to, just the same way the US government went to Warren Buffett when they wanted to shore up Goldman. They know…”
Dorsey: Buffett's Maxim About Idiot-Proof Businesses Has Done More Harm Than Good
“That phrase from Buffett has probably done more harm than good over time to a lot of investors in not interrogating the quality of management or underweighting signals that maybe capital allocation is poor, that management's incentives aren't aligned because t…”
Disney had a sub-$90 million market cap when Warren Buffett invested
“Buffett bought a bunch of the stock in 66, since it had a market cap under ninety million dollars at the time. The company was doing twenty one million in pre-tax earnings, and at this point, because this is after Disneyland, this is after a bunch of stuff, it…”
Pabrai: Following Buffett's concentrated strategy outperforms 98% of fund managers
“I think that if someone followed Buffett's approach to investing, they would do better than the 98%.”
Pabrai: Grew $1M into $14M from 1995 to 2000 using Buffett's strategy
“And so from 95 to 2000, the first five years I was doing this part time while I'm running my company, the million became fourteen million.”
Pabrai: Lunch With Charlie Munger Was Way Better Than With Warren Buffett
“And I found lunch with Charlie way better than lunch with Warren because Charlie's just, you know just so open.”
Buffett made the exact same Level 3 bond investment as Pabrai
“Warren made the exact same bet at the exact same time for the exact same reasons.”
Pabrai: Warren Buffett paid $130 per share for Goldman Sachs in 2008
“Warren paid 130 dollars a share at that time for Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.”
Pabrai bought Goldman Sachs at $65 per share, half Buffett's price
“I bought it at 65 dollars a share, ok? Half of Warren's price.”
Jain: Hedge funds charge too much in today's highly efficient markets
“Fees, I think what's the biggest problem in hedge funds? They charge too much. There's only so much juice in the game. These are efficient markets. It's not like seventies. Buffett can do whatever sitting, reading Moody's manual and pick up stock two times ear…”
Loeb: Abandoning shareholder primacy is a distraction from board duties
“Not to say that the board doesn't have other responsibilities, but I think ultimately they should feed into creating shareholder value. If you go back to both Milton Friedman and things that Warren Buffett have said, of course, boards care about the communitie…”
Vanguard's S&P 500 crushed a hedge fund basket 126% to 36%
“So when all is said and done, the Vanguard 500 returns a total of a 126% net after fees for the ten-year period, while the hedge fund portfolio returns just 36%.”
Coogan: Mystery bidder pays over $9M for Warren Buffett lunch
“A mystery bidder just paid over nine million to win an auction with the Oracle of Omaha, who last participated in the event in 2022.”
Charles Koch: Warren Buffett's hands-off management style wouldn't work for Koch
“Yeah, that wouldn't work for us, the stuff we buy.”
Puri: Berkshire Hathaway is holding nearly $400 billion in cash
“Berkshire has, I think, almost four hundred billion dollars in cash, and it's just been piling up over the last five years, and they just haven't deployed it anywhere.”
Jorgenson: Buffett's strategy requires complete operational abdication to CEOs
“Buffett is track record is investing in CEOs and abdicating entirely to them. And so like, you gotta be a really good people picker when that's your strategy.”
Chamath notes Warren Buffett's returns dropped significantly after Regulation Fair Disclosure
“His returns are bimodally distributed pre and post Reg FD. When you have to follow the rules of disclosure, everybody's returns got kneecapped. When there was no disclosure rules. His returns were off the charts.”
Sanchez: Warren Buffett Developed Mental Frameworks to Overcome Public Speaking Fear
“That's why Warren Buffett actually kind of got famous for mental frameworks, which is fascinating. If you know Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, they're very famous for frameworks. So they'll talk about inverse thinking. They'll talk about killing complexity.…”
Hargrave: Apply Graham and Buffett Value Investing Principles to Crypto Assets
“The model that we use in the book, Christian, is that we treat cryptos like companies. So technically they're different from companies. Legally they're different, but we can think of them much the same. So investing in a crypto is like investing in a company i…”
Gavin Baker: Price determines returns only for a given business outcome
“Warren Buffett's famous statement is the price you pay determines your return. I would modify that and say the price you pay determines your return for a given business outcome.”
Sundheim: Most passionate investors start with a deep value bent
“I think most investors who love investing start out with a deep value bent because it's, you know, if you want to read about great investors, historically, most of them were deep value investors, Ben Graham, you know, Buffett.”
Sundheim: Talent and Leadership Matter More Than Business Moats in Tech Investing
“Buffett always says, like, the business is more important than the leader, because eventually, like, I kind of disagree with that. I think if you look over 30 years, sure, but over any period of time, like, businesses are just people, and if you have amazing p…”
Senra: Learning from historical biographies provides major entrepreneurial leverage
“Learning from history is a form of leverage. Why did Munger read hundreds of biographies? Why did Buffett read hundreds of biographies? Why did Elon read hundreds of biographies? Why did Jeff Bezos, like Steve Jobs, This just over and over again, it's obviousl…”
Chamath: Warren Buffett generated zero alpha after Regulation FD was enacted
“His returns were double the market returns when this kind of information sharing was legal. And the minute that it became illegal and you had to basically act on the same edge as everybody else, his returns went to the market return. He generated zero alpha.”
Behring: Buffett Immediately Praised Tim Hortons' Business Quality
“I mean, I remember 10 seconds into the call with Warren, he really, really praised the quality of the business. And then and I always go back to that and saying how right he was, and we didn't even fully appreciate how good a business it ultimately was, which …”
Coogan: Berkshire Hathaway fully exited its Walmart position by 2018
“Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway famously sold a large portion of its longtime stake that year and fully exited the position by 2018.”
John Catsimatidis built a 40-jet fleet later sold to Warren Buffett
“And eventually becomes like a fleet of like 40 planes and jets, which eventually he sells to Warren Buffett or yeah, Warren Buffett. And that is like one of the beginnings of net jets, which is one of Berkshire Hathaway's like crown jewels, I believe.”
Housel: 99% of Warren Buffett's Net Worth Accumulated After Age 65
“99% of Warren Buffett's net worth was accumulated after his 65th birthday.”
Holiday calls Buffett reading 'The Intelligent Investor' history's best investment.
“Like, you think, like, Warren Buffett is told to read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. And, you know, that's probably the single best investment in human history. You know, like, he reads this one book, and he makes a hundred billion dollars.”
Parrish: Berkshire uses heavy debt on railroad and energy assets
“On the railroad, for instance, they'll put a decent amount of debt in the railroad, because they know what the earnings, it's very predictable.
And they're comfortable.
The same as the energy, where they're putting a lot of capital, they put a lot of debt in”
Rosenthal: Don Keough converted Warren Buffett to Coke using Cherry Coke
“Keo converts him to Coke by telling him about this new product that they're going to launch, Cherry Coke, because Buffett loved cherry syrup in his Pepsi, and so he converts Warren to a Coke guy before Warren ever invests a dollar in the Coca-Cola company.”
Rosenthal: Bill Gates revealed Buffett said Coke could be run by a ham sandwich
“Later on at Sun Valley, Bill Gates lets it slip on a panel with Warren and Roberto and Don Keogh that Warren has always told Bill that Coca-Cola could be run by a ham sandwich.”
Warren Buffett's legendary Coca-Cola investment has actually underperformed the S&P 500
“He would have been better off buying the S&P Over that same time period. Including dividends over that same time period. The S and P 500 is up about 11% annually. So the famous Berkshire Hathaway Coca-Cola investment today is actually underperforming the marke…”
Parrish: Emotional detachment from envy provides investors a massive advantage
“Munger and Buffett's advantage was that they genuinely didn't seem to experience envy. When asked about missing opportunities, they'd shrug and move on. When competitors succeeded, they'd analyze what happened objectively. This emotional detachment is a massiv…”
Parrish: Warren Buffett avoids auctions entirely to dodge psychological bias
“Warren Buffett's solution to this was very practical. Don't go to auctions.”
Panera generated a 25% IRR over two decades, outperforming Berkshire Hathaway.
“Panera was the best performing restaurant stock over two decades. Its last two decades produced 25% IRR In fact, somebody told me we actually beat Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.”
Scilipoti: In Raging Bull Markets, Experience and Knowledge Become Handicaps
“During raging bull markets, knowledge is superfluous, and experience is a handicap. Because if you have the benefit of knowing what happened in all the other blowups, you know how painful it could be. But if you've never experienced it, and every time somethin…”
Scilipoti: Private equity blindly piles into companies Nvidia invests in
“If you see that my name as a key investor and a leader in this industry is making an investment in this company, well, then what does everybody else do? Warren Buffett tells you he's buying something. What does everybody do? They go buy it. Well, if NVIDIA is …”
Scilipoti: The primary investing rule is avoiding catastrophic, embarrassing losses
“My number one rule is avoid embarrassing loss. You want to avoid the loss of a company potentially blowing up. If the company might, you know, if it looks like it's a little bit expensive and it might potentially go down five percent or something or 10% or 20,…”
Scilipoti: Stock Options Must Be Accounted for as an Operating Expense
“I think stock options should be an expense. And if they're not an expense, I borrow from Buffett and even the chair of the accounting has said things like this, that, that if it's not an expense, then what is it?”
Collison: Buffett's early partnership letters show raw ambition sanded off later
“What's interesting is I find it stylistically very different. This is the late fifties, early sixties, and it's before he got so polished, you know, it's before he got so folksy and approachable and careful in what he said, and a little more of the raw ambitio…”
Sundheim: Warren Buffett intentionally curates a specific public persona
“He is a brilliant guy, but he actually does like to portray himself in a certain light.”
Hays: Warren Buffett Missed $50B Profit by Selling Apple Early
“Warren Buffett missed out on fifty billion dollars in profits by selling Apple too early. Barron's calculated that he sold six hundred and fifty million dollars six hundred and fifty million shares at an estimated price of a 185 dollars. Now, they're at 263 do…”
Warren Buffett and Hetty Green Share Principles but Have Different Reputations
“Warren Buffett living modestly in Omaha while managing billions follows principles Hedy would have approved of. But where Buffett is celebrated as a sage, Hedy was often dismissed as eccentric.”
O'Driscoll: Rational capital allocation is management's key job post-growth
“Once a company becomes ex-growth, the most important thing to assess about management is their ability to rationally allocate capital, including sending that capital back to the shareholders”
Warren Buffett's $10.6M Washington Post stake eventually surpassed $1B
“Those 10.6 million dollars in shares that Buffett bought would eventually be worth well over a billion dollars.”
Galloway plans to restrict children's inheritance to essential security
“I'll give them enough money so they can always have a house, always afford education. I'll give them a start, but they won't inherit. I won't give them a ton of money. I'll give them, I don't know what that number is, but I'll give them enough money. I love wh…”
Jamison: AI Venture Bets Resemble Airlines With High Capital and No Moats
“If you take all the profits of all the airlines over time, it's negative for investors. Like shareholders have had a negative return for that because they've just kind of competed themselves away. There's no giant moat to get those monopoly profits. And it's a…”
Isenberg: Perplexity Labs generated a Warren Buffett AI report in five minutes
“This did, it was able to create this in under five minutes.”
Buffett Acquired Nebraska Furniture Mart on Handshake with One-Page Agreement
“They shook hands on the deal. No lawyers, no audit, no inventory count. They later put their agreement in writing in a one-page document.”
Warren Buffett Made 99-Year-Old Rose Blumkin Sign a Five-Year Non-Compete
“This time, Buffett made sure she signed a non-compete agreement lasting five years beyond her separation from the company.”
Buffett: Henry Singleton Had the Best Capital Deployment Record in America
“Warren Buffett once said that Henry Singleton had the best operating and capital deployment record in American business, bar none.”
Teledyne's Decentralized Model Influenced Berkshire Hathaway's Playbook
“Warren Buffett was an admitted singleton admirer, and we can see how Teledyne's decentralized structure with centralized capital allocation became central to Berkshire Hathaway's playbook.”
Charlie Munger attributed Berkshire's success to rarely being forced into bad decisions
“At dinner one night, I was talking with Charlie Munger, and I asked him for the unconventional sort of things that people don't appreciate as much about Berkshire Hathaway's success as he might think that they should. And one of the things that he mentioned to…”