Warren Buffett

Quotations

All Listed Quotations by Warren Buffett:

  • “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 time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.” -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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  • “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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  • “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

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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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  • “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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  • “Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.” -Warren Buffett

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  • “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.” -Warren Buffett

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  • “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -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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  • “If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” -Warren Buffett

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  • “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.” -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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  • “I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.” -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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  • “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.” -Warren Buffett

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  • “It’s buying something because you expect the pool of people who want to buy it—because they want to sell it to someone else—will grow, and it’s wonderful because it does create a rising price, and a rising price does create more buyers, and people think I’ve got to get in on this, and it’s better…

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  • “Probably more like rat poison squared.”

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  • “I don’t own any cryptocurrency, I never will… …I may start a Warren currency, you know, maybe I can create one and I’ll say there’s only going to be 21 million of them.”

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  • “Bitcoin has been used, I think, to move around a fair amount of money illegally. So… so the logical move, from the introduction of Bitcoin, is to go short suitcases.”

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  • “Cryptocurrencies basically have no value, and they don’t produce anything. So you can look at your little ledger item for the next twenty years and it says you have x of this cryptocurrency or that. It doesn’t reproduce, it can’t mail you a check, it can’t do anything. And what you hope is that somebody…

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  • “People really have three basic alternatives: short term cash, which is an option of doing something later on, long term bonds or long term stock.”

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