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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Don't get caught up with what other people are doing. Being a contrarian isn't the key but being a crowd follower isn't either. You need to detach yourself emotionally.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

For 240 years it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Half of all coin-flippers will win their first toss; none of those winners has an expectation of profit if he continues to play the game.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

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 ten years.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

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 Filed in Investing

If returns are going to be 7 or 8 percent and you're paying 1 percent for fees, that makes an enormous difference in how much money you're going to have in retirement.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

If you like spending six to eight hours per week working on investments, do it. If you don't, then dollar-cost average into index funds.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

It's better to have a partial interest in the Hope diamond than to own all of a rhinestone.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett Filed in Investing


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