Warren Buffett Quotes
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
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We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. 'Buffett: Moving Oil By Rail Safely Is A Major Industry Concern' Investing.com (24 April 2014)
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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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 five years.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
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I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.