Warren Buffett Quotes

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
• Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to…
• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across…
• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that…
• 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.'
• 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…
• 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…
• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in…
• 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…
• 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…
• You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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