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Warren Buffett quotes

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“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“After some other mistakes, I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom about what and at what times.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“You must also resist the temptation to stray from your guidelines: If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“In the long run, managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Graham held that price is what you pay and value is what you get.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“The requisites for board membership should be business savvy, interest in the job, and owner-orientation.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“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, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“I’ve said many times that 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, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“It has been far safer to steal large sums with a pen than small sums with a gun.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“It’s simply to say that managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“As they say in poker, 'If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.'” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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