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Warren Buffett Quotes

Value is what you get. 
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. 
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. 
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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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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. 
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. 
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. 
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. 
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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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Beware of geeks bearing formulas. 
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. 
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. 
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. 
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. 
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' 
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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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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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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. 
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Our favorite holding period is forever. 
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. 
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. 
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" 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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. 
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. 
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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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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. 
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. 
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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. 
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. 
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. 
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. 
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. 
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. 
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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. 
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. 
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. 
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