Warren Buffett Quotes, Want Quotes, Make Sense Quotes

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Want Quotes , Make Sense Quotes

Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Long Quotes , Tools Quotes

All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Organization Quotes , Promise Quotes

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Filters Quotes , Investing Quotes

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Views Quotes

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Business Quotes , Love You Quotes

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Buffets Quotes , Financial Quotes

You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not "stocks", and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Doe Quotes , Investing Quotes

If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Moving Quotes , Earning Quotes

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Men Quotes , Principles Quotes

With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Years Quotes , Dollars Quotes

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , People Quotes , Trying Quotes

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

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Should Quotes , Speculation Quotes

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Mean Quotes , Payroll Tax Quotes

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Goal Quotes , Priorities Quotes

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Sex Quotes , Sleep Quotes

That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Reality Quotes , Treasury Quotes