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Company Quotes by Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett stresses that a good business should be simple enough for anyone to run, because over time the best companies thrive while mediocre ones fade. He reads annual reports of a firm and its rivals to judge them. He also believes that honesty from a CEO is essential, since a liar will eventually lose trust.

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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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

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

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

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Look for companies with high profit margins.

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A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good…

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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company…

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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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

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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…

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are…

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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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…

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The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified…

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With…

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital…

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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that…

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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is…

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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together…

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow,…

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business…

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That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes…

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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I…

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For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;…

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are…

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There is no question that an important service is provided to investors by investment companies, investment advisors, trust departments, etc. This service…

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I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the…

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're…

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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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…

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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five…

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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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