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Warren Buffett Quotes - Page 20

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

Life, Generosity, Behavior

The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

Views, People, Relax

"CNBC Exclusive: Liz Claman Interviews Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO, Live at the Company's Annual Shareholder's Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on "Squawk on the Street"". "Squawk On The Street" with Liz Claman, www.cnbc.com. May 7, 2007.

We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

Investing, Sells

Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

Home, Oxygen, Mind

"Warren Buffett busts a cash myth". Warren Buffett's 2014 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, www.valueresearchonline.com. March 4, 2015.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

Moving, Gun, Elephants

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Offering, Foolish, Ifs

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

Business, Bingo, Gob

Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

Mistake, Smart, Long Ago

Financial Review, 1985.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

Pockets, Burning, Investing

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

People, Kind, Institutions

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

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

Investing, Subjects

"Warren Buffett Shared Some Great Career Advice For Millennials" by Vivian Giang and Lynne Guey, www.businessinsider.com. May 8, 2013.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

Investing, Pieces, Tenacity

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

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

Opportunity, America, Flow

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

Love You, People, Purpose

That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

Wells

He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

One Line, Never Forget, Charlie

It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

Thinking, Views, People

We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.

Life, Practice, People

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

Doe, Investing, Consistent

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Thinking, Fields, Investment

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Share, Figures, Obligation

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

Competition, May, Labels

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

Jobs, Newspapers, Substitutes

"Buffett Explains Why He Paid $344 Million For 28 Newspapers, And Thinks The Industry Still Has A Future" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. March 01, 2013.

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Decision, Important, Pricing

"Warren Buffett and How He Decided to Invest in Moody's". Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Interview, www.valuewalk.com. 2010.

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

Numbers, People, Important

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