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Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.
Warren Buffett
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The three most important words in investing are margin of safety.
Warren Buffet (quote inspired by Benjamin Graham)
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Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago
Warren Buffett
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If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
Warren Buffett
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
Warren Buffett
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Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
Warren Buffett
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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.
Warren Buffett
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffett
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Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.
Warren Buffett
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Warren Buffett
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The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.
Warren Buffett
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Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
Warren Buffett
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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
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett (quote inspired by Benjamin Graham)
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The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.
Warren Buffett
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You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
Warren Buffett
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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.”
Warren Buffett
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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Warren Buffett
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.
Warren Buffett
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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.”
Warren Buffett
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Warren Buffett
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Warren Buffett
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So smile when you read a headline that says ‘Investors lose as market falls.’ There is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.
Warren Buffett
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
Warren Buffett
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The years ahead will occasionally deliver major market declines — even panics — that will affect virtually all stocks. No one can tell you when these traumas will occur.
Warren Buffett
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A climate of fear is an investor's best friend. Those who invest only when commentators are upbeat end up paying a heavy price for meaningless reassurance.
Warren Buffett
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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
Warren Buffett
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I just look in the mirror every morning and the mirror always agrees with me. And I go out and do what I believe I should be doing. And I’m not influenced by what other people think.
Warren Buffett