Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

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.

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.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

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.

The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: 'Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?'

In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.