Warren Buffett citations (147 citations, Page 3)

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/09/28/25-best-warren-buffett-quotes.aspx "25 Best Warren Buffett Quotes" The Motley Fool (28 September 2014)
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“[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

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“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

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“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

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“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

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As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128

“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”

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“be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.”

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“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

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“I am not a businessman, I am an artist”

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“We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.”

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1999 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, as quoted in "Why Won't Buffett Invest in Tech Stocks?" at Motley Fool (6 March 2000) http://www.fool.com/boringport/2000/boringport000306.htm

“It’s simply to say that managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers is the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.”

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1982 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1982.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

“Confidence comes back one at a time, but fear, is instantaneous.
With an interview with Tae Kim, CNBC, 12 Sept 2018”

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“Upon leaving [the derivatives business], our feelings about the business mirrored a line in a country song: "I liked you better before I got to know you so well."”

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2008 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

“I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often.”

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"Part 2 — Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/part-2-billionaire-warren-buffett-says-gop-health-reform-bills-relief-rich/ PBS Newshour (27 June 2017) <br class="br">Other

“Those who attended [the annual meeting] last year saw your Chairman pitch to Ernie Banks. This encounter proved to be the titanic duel that the sports world had long awaited. After the first few pitches — which were not my best, but when have I ever thrown my best? — I fired a brushback at Ernie just to let him know who was in command. Ernie charged the mound, and I charged the plate. But a clash was avoided because we became exhausted before reaching each other.”

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1999 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/final1999pdf.pdf <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

“Capitalism is all about somebody coming and trying to take the castle. Now what you need is …. you need a castle that has some durable competitive advantage — some castle that has a moat around it.”

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