Warren Buffett Quotes

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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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.

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.

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

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• Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

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

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

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• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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• We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’

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• We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

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Warren Buffett (66)

Birth:	30th August, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Investor, Philanthropist

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