Warren Buffett Quotes, Genius Quotes

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

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The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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Intensity is the price of excellence.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.

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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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