Warren Buffett Quotes, Decision Quotes, Temptation Quotes

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

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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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When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

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What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

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Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

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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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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

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The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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