Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 37

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• People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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  Crazy, Sea, People

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

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• I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

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• I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Trying, Election, Consistently

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never been very fully employed either.

  Warren Buffett

  Employed

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

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  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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• I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Mad, Guy

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

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• [The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Years, Dollars

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• Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Saving, Broke

  "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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• We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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  Country, Years, Form

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

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• We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

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  Opportunity, Interesting, Balance

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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  Wall, Community, Quality

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

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  Heart, Car, Daggers

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• Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

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  People, Excited, Equity

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• 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.

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• This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

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  Country, Mean, Average

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

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• When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

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  Country, Mean, Yield

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• The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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  Cost, Treasury, Borrowing

  "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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• When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.

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  Morning, Real, Party

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

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• You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

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  Silly, Investing Money, People

  "Warren Buffett - In 1974". Forbes Article, www.forbes.com. April 30, 2008.

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• Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

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  Inflation, Consequence

  "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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• I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

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  Thinking, People, Income

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• House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.

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  Silly, People, House

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

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• You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Mattresses, Millions

  "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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• We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

  Warren Buffett

  Fighting, Choices, Situation

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

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