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Warren Buffett Quotes about Business - Page 2

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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Business, Investment Success, Games

"Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor". Book by Janet Lowe, 1997.

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

Business, Insperational, Mirrors

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Business, War, Doe

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

Business, Love You, Purpose

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

Business, Two, Doubt

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Business, War, Investing

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

Business, Mean, Men

Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1990.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Hurt, Business, Thinking

"Warren Buffett's 23 Most Brilliant Insights About Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. August 31, 2014.

I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

Business, Loss, Firsts

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Business, Management, Weak

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Funny Inspirational, Business, War

Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Running, Kindness, Business

Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 2009.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Life, Success, Business

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

Business, Mass Destruction, Views

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

Business, Bingo, Gob

Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

Business, Writing, Government

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

Business, Investing Money, Enemy

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

Business, Nice, Swings

Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

Business, Imagination, Earning

"A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 26, 2012.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Business, Groups, Rotten

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.146, John Wiley & Sons

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Business, Investing Money, Forever

Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Success, Business, Why Not

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Running, Business, Stress

Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.125, Carolina Academic Press

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business, Investing, Market Risk

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

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