Warren Buffett Quotes

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• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
• Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
• If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
• I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a…
• If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want…
• If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough…
• There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
• Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer
• The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes…
• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining…
• Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
• When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
• I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
• Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing…
• You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
• Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.
• It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
• The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.
• If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
• Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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