Warren Buffett Quotes, Decision Quotes, Trouble Quotes

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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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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I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

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Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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