Warren Buffett Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collation of Warren Buffett quotes and sayings. There is lots that each of us can learn from this world famous investment guru.

“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.”
– Warren Buffett

“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
– Warren Buffett

“Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.”
– Warren Buffett

“Cash never makes us happy. It’s better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire’s pocket than resting comfortably in someone else’s.”
– Warren Buffett

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
– Warren Buffett

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”
– Warren Buffett

“Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.”
– Warren Buffett

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”
– Warren Buffett

“I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.”
– Warren Buffett

“I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.”
– Warren Buffett

“I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.”
– Warren Buffett

“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on assumption they could close the market the next day and not re-open it for five years.”
– Warren Buffett

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
– Warren Buffett

“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.”
– Warren Buffett

“If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.”
– Warren Buffett

“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
– Warren Buffett

“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

“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
– Warren Buffett

“It’s class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.”
– Warren Buffett

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
– Warren Buffett

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
– Warren Buffett

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
– Warren Buffett

“Never invest in a business you can’t understand.”
– Warren Buffett

“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

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
– Warren Buffett

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
– Warren Buffett

“Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.”
– Warren Buffett

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
– Warren Buffett

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
– Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
– Warren Buffett

“Risk is a part of God‘s game, alike for men and nations.”
– Warren Buffett

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
– Warren Buffett

“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
– Warren Buffett

“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”
– Warren Buffett

“The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.”
– Warren Buffett

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