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Financier Inspirational Quotes (5528)

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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
Warren Buffett
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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.
Warren Buffett
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: Every putt makes someone happy.
Warren Buffett
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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.
Warren Buffett
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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.
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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.
Warren Buffett
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All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.
Warren Buffett
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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.
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I've never been very fully employed either.
Warren Buffett
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read one year's experience-twenty times.
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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.
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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
Warren Buffett
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I know that Congress will do the right thing.
Warren Buffett
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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.
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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
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When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.
Warren Buffett
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It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.
Warren Buffett
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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.
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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.
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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.
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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.
Warren Buffett
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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
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