Warren Buffett Quotes

I never try to predict the market.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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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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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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