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Very Quotes by Warren Buffett
- You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
- 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…
- I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
- A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First,…
- Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more…
- An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear…
- A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
- I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going…
- Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull…
- Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on…
- If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
- Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
- An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
- In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
- Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
- The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of…
- You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used…
- Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
- The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of…
- If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
- If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.
- I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I…
- Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
- Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals…
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