Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
From Warren Buffett
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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