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Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 38

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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

Smart, Pay, Rich

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.

Mean, Brain, Knows

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

Thinking, Treasury, Secretary

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

Compensation, Executives, Executive Compensation

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Thinking, Important, Capacity

"Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 22, 2010.

I think confidence will come back.

Thinking

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

Blessing, Past, Thinking

Source: www.cbsnews.com

There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

America, Worry, Debt

Source: www.businessinsider.com

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

Mistake, People, Trying

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Truth Is, Share, Concerned

"Warren Buffett: 'My elephant gun is loaded'". Interview with Dominic Lawson, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2002.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Democracy, Revulsion, Happens

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

Jobs, Years, Mind

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

Running, Country, Business

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

Helping Others, Winning, Class

"Buffett: 'There are lots of loose nukes around the world'". "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

Lying, Two, Waiting

Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.157, John Wiley & Sons

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

Party, Gold, Belief

"Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

Believe, Fall, Past

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 1998.

It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

People, Pay, Wells

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.

Writing, Love Is, Thinking

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

Thinking, Essentials, Investment

Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

Majority, Way, Path

Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.

Silly, Thinking, Availability

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Business, Decision, Earning

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.

Medicine, Economic, Barrels

Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2009.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

Thinking, Views, Political

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