Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Essentials Quotes

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

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

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At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

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If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

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What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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