Warren Buffett Quotes, Smart Quotes, Would Be Quotes

You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

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The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

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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 companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

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You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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