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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

Warren Buffett
Mistake, Past, Ideas
Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Warren Buffett
War, Past, Investing Money
"The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

Warren Buffett
Past, Important, Records
Warren Buffett's 2010 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, February 26, 2011.

The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

Warren Buffett
Past, Earning, Assets

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

Warren Buffett
Past, Blood, Company

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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

If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

Warren Buffett
Running, Past, Talking
Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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.

Warren Buffett
Blessing, Past, Thinking
Source: www.cbsnews.com

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.

Warren Buffett
Believe, Fall, Past
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 1998.

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