Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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

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Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

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