Warren Buffett Quotes

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Warren Buffett

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 30, 1930

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Warren Buffett

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.

Warren Buffett

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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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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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

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I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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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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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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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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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

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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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