Warren Buffett Quotes, Running Quotes, Years Quotes

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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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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

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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

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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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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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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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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

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