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Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 8

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Age, Firsts, Investment

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

Important, Want, Forget

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Trying, Keynes, Figures

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

Business, War, Investing Money

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

Luxury, I Can

"Germans Know Something About Business". Interview with Christoph Pauly and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2008.

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

Business, Loss, Investing

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

Knowing, Focus, Important

"Jay-Z, Buffett and Forbes on Success and Giving Back". Interview with Steve Forbes, www.forbes.com. September 23, 2010.

If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Children, Giving, Rich

Source: www.pbs.org

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Long, People, Cash

"Buy American. I Am" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

Passion, Important, Passion For What You Do

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Buffets, Financial, Investment

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.

People, Should, Admire

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

Running, What Matters, Use

Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.

Jobs, Giving Up, Doing What You Love

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Giving Up, Ideas, People

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

Risk, Desire, Needs

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

Investing, More Money

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Greed, Greedy, Fearful

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Long, Investing, Tradition

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Succeed, Emotion, Judgment

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

Money, Investing, Advantage

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

Self, People, Important

A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

Sex, Bulls, Ends

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Looks, Investing, Profit Margin

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

Cents, Millions

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