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Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.
Warren Buffett Filed in Humor

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 Filed in Investing

Since I know of no way to reliably predict market movements, I recommend that you purchase Berkshire shares only if you expect to hold them for at least five years. Those who seek short-term profits should look elsewhere.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett Filed in Inspirational

Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

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 Filed in Investing

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Warren Buffett Filed in Money

The Dow started the last century at 66 and ended at 11,400. How could you lose money during a period like that? A lot of people did because they tried to dance in and out.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
Warren Buffett Filed in Money

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Warren Buffett Filed in Debt

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.
Warren Buffett Filed in Money

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 Filed in Investing

There is nothing wrong with a 'know nothing' investor who realizes it. The problem is when you are a 'know nothing' investor but you think you know something.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing


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