Warren Buffett Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Secret Quotes

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Expectations Quotes , Secret Quotes

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Naked Quotes , Acquisition Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Children Quotes , Believe Quotes

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Fear Quotes

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Order Quotes , Family And Friends Quotes

If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Loser Quotes , Winner Quotes

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Smart Quotes , Pay Quotes

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Money Quotes , Business Quotes

When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Country Quotes , Mean Quotes

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , War Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , People Quotes , Pay Quotes

This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Country Quotes , Mean Quotes

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Government Quotes , Want Quotes

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Journalist Quotes , Smarter Quotes

Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Might Quotes , Size Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , People Quotes , Should Quotes

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

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 one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Truth Is Quotes , Share Quotes