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"83 Warren Buffet Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 August 1930 | Investor | Business magnate | Philanthropist |

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
Honesty Cheap People Expensive
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price Pay Value Get
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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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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.

Build Reputation Think Different
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Money Earn Speaking Nonsense
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Rich Doubt Always Knew
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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.

Better Wonderful Fair Price
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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.

Look Jump Foot Bars
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Money Rule Never Forget
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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Necessary Extraordinary Things Result
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Light Felt
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Expensive Look Cheap Suit
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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.

Luckiest Humanity Percent Owe
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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Risk Come What Know
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Tide Discover Naked When
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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Fear Others
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Watch this pickpocket! “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Stock Market Hyperactive Enterprise
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I measure success by how many people love me.
Measure Success People Love
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Chain Habit Heavy Broken
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
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I just sit in my office and read all day.

Office Sit Read Day
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You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Can't Make Deal Person
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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.

Associate Behave People Direction
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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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The Greatest Enemies of Equity Investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Enemy Equity Investor Great
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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Stock Buying Quality Marked
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If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Money Make Sleep Work
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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.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Opportunity Rain Thimble Gold
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Something Perfectly Market Shutdown
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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Time Enemy Wonderful Mediocre
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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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.

Stock Understand Market Content
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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