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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

— Warren Buffett

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

— Warren Buffett

It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

— Warren Buffett

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

— Warren Buffett

I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

— Warren Buffett

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home…

— Warren Buffett

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.

— Warren Buffett

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

— Warren Buffett

I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I…

— Warren Buffett

A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made…

— Warren Buffett

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

— Warren Buffett

At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn…

— Warren Buffett

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering…

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

— Warren Buffett

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have…

— Warren Buffett

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the…

— Warren Buffett

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have…

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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We…

— Warren Buffett

One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as…

— Warren Buffett

We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were…

— Warren Buffett

That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to…

— Warren Buffett

If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the…

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a…

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack,…

— Warren Buffett

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures…

— Warren Buffett

We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

— Warren Buffett

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

— Warren Buffett

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

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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

— Warren Buffett

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

— Warren Buffett

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying…

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

— Warren Buffett

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it…

— Warren Buffett