Calamity Quote by Charlie Munger

I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this…

— Studs Terkel

When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the…

— Warren Buffett

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

— Anonymous

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no…

— Warren Buffett

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

— Christie Hefner

Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long…

— Charlie Munger

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave…

— Warren Buffett

“Berkshire Hathaway Public Holdings April 4, 2012 Company Holding Value Stake The Coca-Cola Company (KO) $14.69 billion 8.8% International Business Machines (IBM) $13.17 billion…

— David Andrews

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its…

— Kenneth Fisher

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

— Charlie Munger

The mercantile business did not suit me

— John James Audubon