Mean Quotes by Warren Buffett

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

— Warren Buffett

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks…

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Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have…

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You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer…

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the…

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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a…

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the…

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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial…

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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…

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The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life…

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I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I…

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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend…

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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I…

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None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach…

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We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved…

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I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just…

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Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,…

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And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really…

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I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to…

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The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would…

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I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along,…

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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean…

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

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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

— Warren Buffett

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate…

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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…

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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or…

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We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean,…

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It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and…

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I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be…

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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back…

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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night.…

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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…

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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.…

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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three…

— Warren Buffett