Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 8

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• I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Germans Know Something About Business". Interview with Christoph Pauly and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2008.

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• Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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  Hobbies, Doe, World

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• Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.

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  Jobs, Giving Up, Doing What You Love

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• If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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  Children, Giving, Rich

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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  Winning, Firsts, Loses

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• John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

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  Trying, Keynes, Figures

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• I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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  Age, Firsts, Investment

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• If
  you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if
  you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the
  object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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  Games, Assets, Speculators

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• You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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  Catholic, Should

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• You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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  Life, Investing, Investment

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• The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on
  earth like unconditional love.

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  Mean, Unconditional Love, Earth

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• What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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  Important, Want, Forget

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• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insightful, Causes

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1990.

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• Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

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  Years, Two, Long

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• The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

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  Self, People, Important

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• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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  Long, People, Cash

  "Buy American. I Am" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

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  Sex, Bulls, Ends

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• It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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  Easier, Rational, Rationalize

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• Look for companies with high profit margins.

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  Looks, Investing, Profit Margin

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• People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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  People, Should, Admire

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• I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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  Source, Annual Reports, Company

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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  Business, Military, War

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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  Facts, Reason, Hypothesis

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• Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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  Loss, Trying, Gains

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• To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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  Successful, World, Mathematics

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