Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 14

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

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing

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• Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

  Warren Buffett

  Quality, Investing, Way

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• It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

  Warren Buffett

  Horse, Fun, Car

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• I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.

  Warren Buffett

  May, Today, Investing Your Time

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• I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  "The view from Omaha: devotees flock to hear world's richest man" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2008.

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• No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Feet, Moats

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• Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Song, Enemy, Sirens

  Source: time.com

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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Men, Games, Risk

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• Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

  Warren Buffett

  Growth, Investing, Hips

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Filters, Investing, Seconds

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• If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Investing, Buying

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• Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

  Warren Buffett

  Kitchen, Cockroaches, Problem

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• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

  Warren Buffett

  Gratitude, Grateful, Long

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• You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Fool, Someday

  Quoted in Fortune, 5 Feb. 1996

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• There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

  Warren Buffett

  Light, Kitchen, Cockroaches

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

  Warren Buffett

  Feds, Fund, Hedge Fund

  "If You Don’t Believe We’re Already Back on a Gold Standard, Think Again" by Max Keiser, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Buffets, Rationality

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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  Night, Differences, Emts

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• Never get too hung up on mistakes.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Hung

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• A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Mentor, Majority

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, March 05, 2007.

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• Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Long, Generosity

  "My Philanthropic Pledge" at the The Giving Pledge, 2010.

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• Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

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  Forecasts

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• What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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  Learning, People, History

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