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Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 17

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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

Love You, People, Want

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

Wisdom, Ideas, Trying

A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

Believe, People, Mark

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

People, Investing, Might

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

Enemy, Investing, Emotion

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

Research, I Can

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

Over You, Age, Problem

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

Investing, Investment, Fund

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.

Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year or two, I think that's the greatest mistake that investors make because it's always uncertain. People say it's a time of uncertainty. It was uncertain on September 10th, 2001, people just didn't know it. It's uncertain every single day. So take uncertainty as part of being involved in investment at all. But uncertainty can be your friend. I mean, when people are scared, they pay less for things. We try to price. We don't try to time at all.

Mistake, Mean, Thinking

"Warren Buffett's 'Stock Split' Interview". "Squawk Box" with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. January 10, 2010.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Law, Gdp, Sitting

"Warren Buffett's 5-Minute Plan to Fix the Deficit" by Alex Crippen, www.cnbc.com. July 7, 2011.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

Long, Curiosity, Needs

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

Running, Country, Nice

Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

Believe, Trying, Investing

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

Advice, Investing, Cash

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

Men, Alchemist, Investing

Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

Integrity, Passion, Focus

The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.

Real, Rap, Men

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Believe, Romantic Love, Night

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Successful, Business Success, Investing

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

Smart, Long, Style

"Warren Buffett On Todd Combs, Berkshire's New Hedge Fund Superstar" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2011.

I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

Wall, Couple, Thinking

"Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Funny Inspirational, Business, War

Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

Real, Growth, Return

If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

Thinking, Names, Choices

"What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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