Warren Buffett Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Grateful Quotes

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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I think confidence will come back.

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

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We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

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I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he had all these - they had all these types from Wall Street, you know, and they had advanced degrees, and they look very alert, and they came with these - they came with these things that said gamma and alpha and sigma and all that. And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. They've heard that in Europe.

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The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

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I've never been very fully employed either.

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I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

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