Warren Edward Buffett
Born: 30 August 1930, Omaha, Nebraska
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- A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. permalink
Warren Buffett - A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. permalink
Warren Buffett - Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. permalink
Warren Buffett - I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and I am a better businessman because I am an investor. permalink
Warren Buffett - I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die. permalink
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. permalink
Warren Buffett - I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. permalink
Warren Buffett - I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death — abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term "thinking outside the box". permalink
Warren Buffett - 2007 Chairman's Letter - 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. permalink
Warren Buffett - "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'" - BusinessWeek (5 July 1999) - If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler. permalink
Warren Buffett - If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety. permalink
Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting (1997) - If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game. permalink
Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting (1997) - If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. permalink
Warren Buffett - In fact, when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. permalink
Warren Buffett - 1988 Chairman's Letter - In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. permalink
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