Warren Buffett Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Negative Quotes

There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

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The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

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I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

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The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

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Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.

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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.

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