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"83 Warren Buffet Quotes & Sayings

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

We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Ignorance Leverage Combine Result
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
Passionate Never Job About
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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.

People Work Admire Should
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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I’m not interested in cars and my goal is not to make people envious. Don’t confuse the cost of living with the standard of living.

Envious Goal Cost Living
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Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Saving Spend Left What
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Sell Things Buy Need
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
Important Investment Yourself Make
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Snowball Important Life Long
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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Control Time Agenda People
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Writing Check Commitment Conversation
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Forecast Future Nothing Deal
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

Learn History People That
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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
Money Dose Rationality Sedates
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end

Wise Fool Beginning End
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
Intensity Price Excellence The
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
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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.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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Having first-rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Important People Report Team
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ago Long Time Shade
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Warren Buffet Quotes & Sayings