Warren Buffett Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

  Warren Buffett

  Trying, Investing, Buffets

• Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

  Warren Buffett

  Economy

• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Mean, Years

• And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.

  Warren Buffett

  Fall, Mean, Loss

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, Fate, Long

  "Zuckerberg, Gates, Buffett and the Triumph of Competitive Philanthropy". www.washingtonpost.com. December 02, 2015.

• I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, People, Want

• If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Economy, Stills

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

• Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Done, Littles

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

  Warren Buffett

  Fall, Doe, Might

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view, is - this has been - the prosperity has been unbelievable for the extremely rich people. If you go to 1982, when Forbes put on their first 400 list, those people had $93 billion. They now they have $2.4 trillion, 25 for one. That is - this has been a prosperity that's been disproportionately rewarding to the people on top.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now.

  Warren Buffett

  Blood, Tests, Way

• I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.

  Warren Buffett

  Summer, War, Losing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

  Warren Buffett

  Credit, Economy, Wells

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

• The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Patient, Economy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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