Warren Buffett Quotes, Decision Quotes, Temptation Quotes

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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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

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I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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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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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

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I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

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We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

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