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To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a jobWarren Buffett
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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.Warren Buffett
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.Warren Buffett
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doingWarren Buffett
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Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are FearfulWarren Buffett
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I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.Warren Buffett
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.Warren Buffett
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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.Warren Buffett
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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.Warren Buffett
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I could end the deficit in five 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.Warren Buffett
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.Warren Buffett
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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.Warren Buffett
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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.Warren Buffett
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.Warren Buffett
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.Warren Buffett
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad pressWarren Buffett
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.Warren Buffett
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Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.Warren Buffett
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We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.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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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.Warren Buffett
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Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.Warren Buffett
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.Warren Buffett
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.Warren Buffett
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The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.Warren Buffett
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.Warren Buffett
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...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.Warren Buffett
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
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Our favorite holding period is forever.Warren Buffett
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.Warren Buffett
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.Warren Buffett
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.Warren Buffett
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.Warren Buffett
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.Warren Buffett
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.Warren Buffett
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.Warren Buffett
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I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.Warren Buffett
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.Warren Buffett
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.Warren Buffett
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.Warren Buffett
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.Warren Buffett
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.Warren Buffett
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.Warren Buffett
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.Warren Buffett
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.Warren Buffett
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.Warren Buffett
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.Warren Buffett
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.Warren Buffett
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.Warren Buffett
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.Warren Buffett
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.Warren Buffett
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.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
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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
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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.'Warren Buffett