Warren Buffett Quotes, Years Quotes, Opinion Quotes

We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

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The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.

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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

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