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Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
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It's a game of a million inferences. There are a lot of things to draw inferences from — cards played and not played. These inferences tell you something about the probabilities. It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.
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I just read and read and read.... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
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It's simply to say that managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers is the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
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Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn't be our country's primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
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After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism — some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.
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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.
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Success in investing doesn't correlate with I. Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
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People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I've ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It's a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.
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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
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It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
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Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.
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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
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Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.
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August 30, 1930
(age 91)
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Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the most successful investor in the world.
Known for:
Thoughts of Chairman Buffett (1998)
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