« All Years Quotes · Warren Buffett's Page
Years Quotes by Warren Buffett
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it…
- I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and…
- Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
- 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…
- If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
- 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…
- In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as…
- If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of…
- If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
- The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years…
- We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be…
- In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic…
- With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.
- The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going…
- I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.
- We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we use lots of…
- 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…
- Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
- I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent…
- If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance…
- When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
- If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
- I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
- Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz