Warren Buffett Quotes, Greedy Quotes

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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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 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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Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.

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For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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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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