Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 18

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

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  Should Have, Investment, Conviction

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• If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Investing, Partners

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• Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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  Successful, Business Success, Investing

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• Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

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  Crazy, Play, Credit

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• What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

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  Information, Conclusion, Humans

  "How the web distorts reality and impairs our judgement skills" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2014.

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• If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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  Moving, Gun, Elephants

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• Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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  Toilets, Today, Succeed

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Success, Business

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• 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

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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  Concentration, Have Confidence, Ifs

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• Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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  Greek, Investing, Letters

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• If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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  Reality, Records, World

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• I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

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  Loyalty, Smoking, Dollars

  "Where should I invest my savings?" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2006.

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• Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

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  Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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• Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

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  Play, Next Day, Events

  "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 3" by Vishal Khandelwal, www.safalniveshak.com. December 12, 2012.

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• You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

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  Investing Your Time, Causes, Common

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• The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.

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  Real, Rap, Men

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• Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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  Men, Principles, Rise Above

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.126, John Wiley & Sons

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• So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

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  Hurt, Fall, Golf

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• If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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  Add, Investing, Way

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• If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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  Giving, Soft Drinks, Done

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• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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  Running, Years, People

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• The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

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  Investing Money, People, Triumph

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

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• Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Long, Style

  "Warren Buffett On Todd Combs, Berkshire's New Hedge Fund Superstar" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2011.

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