Warren Buffett Quotes, Years Quotes, Three Quotes

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

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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.

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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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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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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.

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