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Warren Buffett Quotes
"[The US economic system] has unleashed potential as no other system has and will continue to do so. America's best days lie ahead."
- Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Chairman's Letter
"We'll have more people moving more goods 10, 20, 30 years from now. I just believe this country will prosper."
- CNBC Television, ref. International Business Times
"[The perfect amount of money to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."
- Richard I. Kirkland Jr., "Should You Leave It All to the Children?", Fortune, 29 September 1986.
"[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."
- Harvard, 1998
"If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I've ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It's a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that."
- "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'", BusinessWeek, 5 July 1999.
"You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."
- Berkshire Hathaway 2001 Chairman's Letter
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- As quoted in The Real Warren Buffett : Managing Capital, Leading People (2002) by James O'Loughlin
"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
- Berkshire Hathaway 2004 Chairman's Letter
"I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'"
- Berkshire Hathaway 2007 Chairman's Letter
"If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."
- "Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary", Times Online, 28 June, 2007.
"Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." **
"Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition." **
"We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits." **
"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.”" **
- ** Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Chairman's Letter
"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will."
- In a panel discussion after the premier of the 2008 documentary I.O.U.S.A.
- "Panel at the Premier", 0:05:42ff., DVD extras, I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
- Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Chairman's Letter
"We'll have more people moving more goods 10, 20, 30 years from now. I just believe this country will prosper."
- CNBC Television, ref. International Business Times
"[The perfect amount of money to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."
- Richard I. Kirkland Jr., "Should You Leave It All to the Children?", Fortune, 29 September 1986.
"[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."
- Harvard, 1998
"If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I've ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It's a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that."
- "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'", BusinessWeek, 5 July 1999.
"You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."
- Berkshire Hathaway 2001 Chairman's Letter
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- As quoted in The Real Warren Buffett : Managing Capital, Leading People (2002) by James O'Loughlin
"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
- Berkshire Hathaway 2004 Chairman's Letter
"I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'"
- Berkshire Hathaway 2007 Chairman's Letter
"If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."
- "Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary", Times Online, 28 June, 2007.
"Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." **
"Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition." **
"We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits." **
"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.”" **
- ** Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Chairman's Letter
"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will."
- In a panel discussion after the premier of the 2008 documentary I.O.U.S.A.
- "Panel at the Premier", 0:05:42ff., DVD extras, I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
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