Warren Buffett Quotes, Practice Quotes, Long Quotes

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

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We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset by far. Then follow your passion; you want to be really excited to get out of bed every morning.

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Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

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

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

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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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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

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People should always know better.

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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

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If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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