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“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Money #Business #Investing
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“In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Thinking #Financial #Easy
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“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Baby #Nine #Months
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“Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Thinking #Oxygen #Years
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“Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Pain #Sacrifice #Leader
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“It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Mistake
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“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Effort #Matter #Talent
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“I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Jobs #Thinking #Looks
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“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.”
-- Warren Buffett
#America #Worry #Debt
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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Success
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“I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That'sreally the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Math #Years #Two
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“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Sleep #Way #Making Money
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“Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Keys #Giving
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“Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Pages #Interest #Working It
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“You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Rich #Neighbor #Get Rich
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“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Business #Inspiration #Intelligent
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“The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Truth Is #Share #Concerned
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“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Life #Business #War
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“It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Mistake #People #Trying
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“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Inspirational #Life #Honesty
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“The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Democracy #Revulsion
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“The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Safety #Important #Investing
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“If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Investing #Way #Portfolios
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“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Weapons #Derivatives #Investing
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“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
-- Warren Buffett
#War #Winning #Class
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“People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.”
-- Warren Buffett
#People #Greed #Should
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“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Enemy #Investing #Looks
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“When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Kings #People #Doe
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“We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.”
-- Warren Buffett
#Timing #More Money #Snoring
