Warren Buffett Quotes
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Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
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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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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'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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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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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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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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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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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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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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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 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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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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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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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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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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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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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.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.