Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 17

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• I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

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  Hero, Years, Games

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• Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

  Warren Buffett

  Like You, Groceries, Perfume

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• With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Dollars, Investing

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• I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Strong, Animal

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

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• Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

  Warren Buffett

  Guides, Servant

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• I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Problem, Antisocial

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Pay, Great Men

  Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting at Omaha, Nebraska, May 01, 2004.

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• If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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  Government, Investing, Partners

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• People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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  People, Greed, Should

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• I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

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  Investing, Paper, Economic

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• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

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  Believe, Mean, Years

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• Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

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  Kitchen, Cockroaches, Problem

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• Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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  Men, Principles, Rise Above

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.126, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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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.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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  Running, Years, People

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• If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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  Paper, Theory, Stills

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• The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Winning, Groups

  "Berkshire’s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500". "2007 Chairman’s letter" by Warren Buffett, Fanciful Figures – How Public Companies Juice Earnings, p.18, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February, 2008.

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• But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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  Home, Government, Media

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

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• An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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  Succeed, Emotion, Judgment

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• If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

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  Moving, Earning, Needs

  "Warren Buffett Reveals A 6th Rule For Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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  Smart, Investing Money, People

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

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  Investing Money, Investment Success, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

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  Perfect, Mathematical, Formulas

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• The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

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  Keys, Life Is, Figures

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