Warren Buffett Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Errors Quotes

More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

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If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

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I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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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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