Warren Buffett Quotes, Capacity Quotes

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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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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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

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

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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 prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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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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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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