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Warren Buffett

[Our] favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. [American investor] Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.

Warren Buffett

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

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Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Warren Buffett

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Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Warren Buffett

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

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Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffett

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Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.

Warren Buffett

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I have every possession I want. I have a lot of friends who have a lot more possessions. But in some cases, I feel the possession possesses them, rather than the other way around.

Warren Buffett

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When seeking directors, CEOs don’t look for pit bulls. It’s the cocker spaniel that gets taken home.

Warren Buffett

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Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.

Warren Buffett

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What we do is not beyond anyone else’s competence. I feel the same way about managing that I do about investing: It’s just not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Warren Buffett

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The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and to just think. If that doesn’t work, nothing else is going to work.

Warren Buffett

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You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out

Warren Buffett

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The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the businesslike investor.

Warren Buffett

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Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.

Warren Buffett

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Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.

Warren Buffett

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In my view, for most people, the best thing is to do is owning the S&P 500 index fund. There are huge amounts of money people pay for advice they really don’t need.

Warren Buffett

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As in the case with marriage, business acquisitions often deliver surprise after the ‘I do’s.

Warren Buffett

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Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

Warren Buffett

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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Warren Buffett

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Just buy something for less than it’s worth.

Warren Buffett

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The important thing is to know what you know and know what you don’t know.

Warren Buffett

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A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett

genius warren buffett

A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett

genius warren buffett

Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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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.

Warren Buffett

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You've got to understand accounting. You've got to. That's got to be like a language to you.

Warren Buffett

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American magic has always prevailed, and it will do so again.

Warren Buffett

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Fear is the most contagious disease you can imagine. It makes the virus look like a piker.

Warren Buffett