Warren Buffett Quotes, Years Quotes, Two Quotes

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

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

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.

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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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