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War Quotes by Warren Buffett
- In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions…
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've…
- Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
- You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
- A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
- There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
- It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Our favorite holding period is forever.
- We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- 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…
- 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…
- We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could…
- The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
- There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
More War Quotes
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare