Warren Buffett (1930)

Warren Buffett quotes

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

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

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• You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

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• Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”

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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.

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• In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

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• People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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• I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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• You can’t make a good deal with a bad person

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• I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

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• Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.”

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

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• Opportunities come frequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble”

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• What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

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

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• The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

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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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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

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• You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

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• “Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.”

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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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• an unvaryingly strong liquid position and avoidance of money-market borrowings;”

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• “While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. ”

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• “In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. (“It’s difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.”)”

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• Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

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