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Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 4

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All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

Thinking

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

Patient, Wealth, Efficient

It's easier to create money than to spend it.

Easier

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Reason, Good Enough, Enough

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Baby, Successful, Investing Money

"10 billionaires give their best advice on getting - and staying - rich" by Autumn Rose, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2016.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Running, Book, Intelligent

"BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 1998.

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

World, Reason

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

Strong, Investing, Company

If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

Jewelry, Knows, Ifs

"Warren Buffett's Omaha Jewelry Retailer Cuts Jobs As Recession Slows Sales" by Alex Crippen, www.cnbc.com. June 10, 2009.

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

Circles, Important, Different

The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

Morning, Giving, Advice

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

Mistake, Thinking, Currents

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

Love, Marriage, People

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

Decision, Trouble, Bigs

Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Decision, Important, Important Decisions

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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

Mistake, Games, Overcoming

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Family And Friends, Would Be, Pages

"Warren Buffett's Super Simple Advice For Becoming Successful" by Peter Gasca, www.businessinsider.com. August 08, 2014.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

Thinking, Two, Needs

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.160, John Wiley & Sons

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

Want, Pay, Great Men

Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting at Omaha, Nebraska, May 01, 2004.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Money, Two, Gold

"How Does The Cult Of Buffett Compare To The Cult Of Gold?". www.businessinsider.com. April 10, 2012.

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

Opportunity, Important, Investing

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

Ideas, Investment, Exciting

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

Guy, Annual Reports, Playboy

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Opportunity, Encounters, Investing

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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.

Life, People, Empowering

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