Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Bridges Quotes

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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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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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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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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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

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