Warren Buffett Quotes
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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.
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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
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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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All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.
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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
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I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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I never invest in anything that I don't understand.
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America should stand for more than just wealth.
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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.
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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.
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Never invest in a business you don't understand.
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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.
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I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.
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That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.
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I know that Congress will do the right thing.
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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.
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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.
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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
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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.
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Exercise humility and restraint.
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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.
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