Warren Buffett Quotes, Business Quotes, Mean Quotes

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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Exercise humility and restraint.

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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

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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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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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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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When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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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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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

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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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That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.

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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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