Warren Buffett Quotes

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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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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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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• It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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• We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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Warren Buffett (66)

Birth:	30th August, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Investor, Philanthropist

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