Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
WARREN BUFFETTOf 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.
More Warren Buffett Quotes
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.
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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.
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I am not a businessman, I am an artist.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
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I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.
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Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.
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Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.
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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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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
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If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it’s going up.
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The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.
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It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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