Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Problem Quotes

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.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

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Exercise humility and restraint.

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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

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I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

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