Warren Buffett Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

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

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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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