Warren Buffett Quotes, Years Quotes, Mentor Quotes

A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

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Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

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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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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

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The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

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There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

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