Warren Buffett Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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

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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

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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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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

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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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