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Warren Buffett |
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Value Investor, Billionaire, Chairman of |
Over the past thirty-five years, Warren Buffett
has emerged as arguably the greatest investor in American history. If you had invested $10,000 in
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I
don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can
step over.
Warren Buffett
I never attempt to make money on the stock market.
I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not
reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
If a business
does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
If past history was all there was to the game, the
richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
In the business world, the rearview mirror is
always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
It takes
20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about
that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
It's better to
hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is
better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
It's far
better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a
wonderful price.
Warren Buffett
Let blockheads
read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett
Look at market
fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather
than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
Of the billionaires I have known, money
just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had
money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett
Only buy
something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10
years.
Warren Buffett
Only when the
tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Our favorite
holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Price is what
you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
Risk is a part
of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett
Rule No.1:
Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett
The business
schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple
behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett
The investor
of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
The smarter
the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read
the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the
student body.
Warren Buffett
There seems to
be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
Time is the
friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
We enjoy the
process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett
We simply
attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others
are fearful.
Warren Buffett
When a
management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a
reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of
the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
Why not invest your
assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a
good thing can be wonderful".
Warren Buffett
Wide
diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are
doing.
Warren Buffett
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.
Warren Buffett
You only have
to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many
things wrong.
Warren Buffett