Warren Buffett quote: "I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take...
WARREN BUFFETT

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
WARREN BUFFETT

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a...
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the...
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, i...
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful pr...
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive mili...
WARREN BUFFETT

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
WARREN BUFFETT

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
WARREN BUFFETT

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You&...
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
WARREN BUFFETT

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
WARREN BUFFETT

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
WARREN BUFFETT

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
WARREN BUFFETT

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than par...
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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...
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running ...
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circ...
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Our favourite holding period is forever.
WARREN BUFFETT

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think ab...
WARREN BUFFETT

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the...
WARREN BUFFETT

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
WARREN BUFFETT

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
WARREN BUFFETT

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
WARREN BUFFETT

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
WARREN BUFFETT

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wro...
WARREN BUFFETT

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavio...
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
WARREN BUFFETT

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll...
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
WARREN BUFFETT

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
WARREN BUFFETT

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
WARREN BUFFETT

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
WARREN BUFFETT

Our favorite holding period is forever.
WARREN BUFFETT

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

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank accou...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even ...
WARREN BUFFETT

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
WARREN BUFFETT

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you...
WARREN BUFFETT

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely...
WARREN BUFFETT

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad econ...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
WARREN BUFFETT

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
WARREN BUFFETT

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is bette...
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful...
WARREN BUFFETT

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a t...
WARREN BUFFETT

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
WARREN BUFFETT

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the bar...
WARREN BUFFETT

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
WARREN BUFFETT

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press t...
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer S...
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press...
WARREN BUFFETT

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and sp...
WARREN BUFFETT

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction wh...
WARREN BUFFETT

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the busi...
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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our ...
WARREN BUFFETT

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
WARREN BUFFETT

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no on...
WARREN BUFFETT

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
WARREN BUFFETT

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
WARREN BUFFETT

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
WARREN BUFFETT

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
WARREN BUFFETT

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went ...
WARREN BUFFETT

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks...
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You have to learn to understand your partner, to be tolerant, sympathetic, encouraging. Those are sk...
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We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling s...
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When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad...
WARREN BUFFETT

Eddie understood that how he lugged bats was unimportant, ... What counted instead was hooking up wi...
WARREN BUFFETT

Unfortunately, the hangover from [the market bubble] may prove to be proportional to the binge.
WARREN BUFFETT

The burden of paying Helpers may cause American equity investors, overall, to earn only 80 percent o...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like c...
WARREN BUFFETT

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make ...
WARREN BUFFETT

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
WARREN BUFFETT

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it
WARREN BUFFETT

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Min...
WARREN BUFFETT

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal p...
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Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on...
WARREN BUFFETT

I don't try to jump over 7foot bars, I look around for 1foot bars that I can step over.
WARREN BUFFETT

It seems to me she varied from the standard approach of securities analysts.
WARREN BUFFETT

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we...
WARREN BUFFETT

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful peop...
WARREN BUFFETT

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive, some times specific to a comp...
WARREN BUFFETT

Facts do not cease to exist, either because they are unpleasant or because they are ignored
WARREN BUFFETT

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline, you get rational behavior.
WARREN BUFFETT

Warren, isn't it fair to say that if we did have an opinion, we wouldn't tell him?
WARREN BUFFETT

The stick to what they understand and let their abilities, not their egos, determine what they attem...
WARREN BUFFETT

I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.
WARREN BUFFETT

Eddie is a very smart guy, but putting Kmart and Sears together is a tough hand.
WARREN BUFFETT

Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more sti...
WARREN BUFFETT

Bill Gates and I kind of cooked it up together. We hope we could get a school program someplace, whe...
WARREN BUFFETT

These costs are now being incurred in amounts that will cause shareholders to earn far less than the...
WARREN BUFFETT

Over the years, our current businesses, in aggregate, should deliver modest growth in operating earn...
WARREN BUFFETT

During 2002 we entered the foreign currency market for the first time in my life, ... In 2003, we en...
WARREN BUFFETT

The market outperformed business for a very long time, and that phenomenon had to end,
WARREN BUFFETT

Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more sti...
WARREN BUFFETT

I personally think it would be better if the NYSE remained as a neutral, not-for-big-profit institut...
WARREN BUFFETT

We felt that the risk profile had changed.
WARREN BUFFETT

I am a bull on sterling versus the U.S. dollar.
WARREN BUFFETT

Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them. In my view, it wil...
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We quickly realized that Business Wire was a gem of a company.
WARREN BUFFETT

In making this acquisition of Business Wire, we have followed our blueprint of buying profitable com...
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Our ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the exi...
WARREN BUFFETT

An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavio...
WARREN BUFFETT

We have three managers at Berkshire who are reasonably young and fully capably of being CEO.
WARREN BUFFETT

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in t...
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circum...
WARREN BUFFETT

I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient.
WARREN BUFFETT

It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like sa...
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It'...
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If calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor, I'd have to go back to delivering newsp...
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You've been drafted into a war you didn't start, ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as...
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There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge,...
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Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for o...
WARREN BUFFETT

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
WARREN BUFFETT

Let us do or die.
WARREN BUFFETT

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...
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Over that time we've been happy with that investment but I've got to tell you I'm happier today. It'...
WARREN BUFFETT

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely...
WARREN BUFFETT

Just looks. Looks exclusively.
WARREN BUFFETT

Two rules:1. Preserve the principal2. When in doubt see Rule #1
WARREN BUFFETT

The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on...
WARREN BUFFETT

Eddie understood that how he lugged bats was unimportant. What counted instead was hooking up with t...
WARREN BUFFETT

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve ...
WARREN BUFFETT

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
WARREN BUFFETT

If you have a new son or grandson in 2006, name him Tony.
WARREN BUFFETT

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, inte...
WARREN BUFFETT

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy wh...
WARREN BUFFETT

I recently sold a house in Laguna for $3.5 million. It was on about 2,000 square feet of land, maybe...
WARREN BUFFETT

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
WARREN BUFFETT

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFETT

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fear...
WARREN BUFFETT

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle ...
WARREN BUFFETT

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely ali...
WARREN BUFFETT

I was hoping you'd tell me.
WARREN BUFFETT

If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. If you have a harem of 40 w...
WARREN BUFFETT

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too hard to be broken.
WARREN BUFFETT

Rule number one of investing: Never lose money. Rule number two: Never forget rule number one.
WARREN BUFFETT

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capit...
WARREN BUFFETT

Don't borrow money to make investments.
WARREN BUFFETT

I want to give my kids enough so that they could feel that they could do anything, but not so much t...
WARREN BUFFETT

No matter how much talent or effort, some things just take time into complete: you can never be a ba...
WARREN BUFFETT

It's better to hang out with people better than you, ... Pick out associates whose behavior is bette...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

I stop [at Burger King] occasionally for a hamburger and that's as close as I've gotten.
WARREN BUFFETT

However, the mild degree of caution that we exercised was an improper response to the world unfoldin...
WARREN BUFFETT

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
WARREN BUFFETT

If you tell me who your heroes are, I'll tell you how you'll turn out.
WARREN BUFFETT

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those w...
WARREN BUFFETT

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing
WARREN BUFFETT

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
WARREN BUFFETT

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

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our business...
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative ...
WARREN BUFFETT

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

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive cap...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the ...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT

I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done ser...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT

Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now a...
JIMMY BUFFETT

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
JIMMY BUFFETT

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT

We are the people our parents warned us about.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
JIMMY BUFFETT

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like...
JIMMY BUFFETT

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
JIMMY BUFFETT

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will writ...
JIMMY BUFFETT

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
JIMMY BUFFETT

If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
JIMMY BUFFETT

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I could go on for hours telling stories..but I guess youhad to be there
JIMMY BUFFETT

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Warren Buffett

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