Warren Buffett Quotes

A stock doesn't know that you own it.

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Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.

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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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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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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

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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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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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

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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.

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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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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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