Warren Buffett Quotes, Trying Quotes, Littles Quotes

Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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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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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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

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

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Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

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We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

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