Warren Buffett Citations
Warren Buffett: Citations en anglais
1997 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, as quoted in Of Permanent Value : The Story of Warren Buffett, by Andrew Kilpatrick, Vol. 2 (2007), p. 1615
As quoted in Homespun Wisdom from the "Oracle of Omaha" by Amy Stone in BusinessWeek (5 June 1999) http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_27/b3636006.htm
1994 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1994.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
1998 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1998pdf.pdf
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
As quoted in "Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'" by Amy Stone in BusinessWeek (5 June 1999)
1997 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1997.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239763 "10 Brilliant Quotes From Warren Buffett, America's Second-Richest Person " entrepreneur.com (13 November 2014)
Quotes from the press
“Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.”
As quoted in "Should You Leave It All to the Children?" by Richard I. Kirkland Jr, in Fortune (29 September 1986) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68098/index.htm
1992 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1992.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.”
2006 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2006ltr.pdf
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
1993 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1993.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.”
As quoted in "My $650,100 Lunch with Warren Buffett" by Guy Spier, in TIME (30 June 2008) http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1819293,00.html
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Though Buffet is reported to have expressed such ideas with such remarks many times in his lectures, he never claimed to originate the idea, and in the article "The Chains of Habit Are Too Light To Be Felt Until They Are Too Heavy To Be Broken" at the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/warren-buffett/ it is shown that this sort of expression about chains goes back at least to similar ideas presented by Samuel Johnson in "The Vision of Theodore, The Hermit of Teneriffe, Found in His Cell" in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 18 (April 1748), p.160:
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn, and when, by continual additions, they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.
Such sentiments were later succinctly summarized by Maria Edgeworth in Moral Tales For Young People by Miss Edgeworth (1806), Vol 1, Second Edition, p. 86:
… the diminutive chains of habit, as somebody says, are scarcely ever heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.
Disputed
1985 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
As quoted in Barbarians at the Gate : The Fall of RJR Nabisco (1989), by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
2007 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
" My Philanthropic Pledge http://givingpledge.org/pdf/letters/Buffett_Letter.pdf" at The Giving Pledge (2010)
As quoted in Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (2005) by Dan Robert Anderson, p. 138
On being dispassionate and patient in investments, in an interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974); he is contrasting soft-drinks to intoxicating beverages in this example; Buffett eventually became a major investor in Coca-Cola.
“The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.”
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (Fall, 1984)
“I'm convinced that there is much inefficiency in the market.”
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (Fall, 1984)
