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Famous Warren Buffett Quotes
“Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.”
“Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.”
“Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.”
“You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.”
“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”
“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”
“Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”