Warren Buffett Quotes

We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.

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

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Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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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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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

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You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

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How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

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