Quote

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Warren Buffett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Institutional
Imperative
Imperatives
Resist
Investing
Management
Doe

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
Warren Buffett
Image
Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.
Warren Buffett
Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.
Warren Buffett
Image
The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
Warren Buffett
Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.
Warren Buffett
Image
Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.
Warren Buffett
Image
I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.
Warren Buffett
Image
Investing is simple, but not easy.
Warren Buffett
Image
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
Warren Buffett
Image
The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.
Warren Buffett
Image
We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.
Warren Buffett
Image
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
Warren Buffett
Image
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.
Warren Buffett
Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.
Warren Buffett
Image
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.
Warren Buffett
Image
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
Image
We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.
Warren Buffett
Image
Never test the depth of river with both the feet.
Warren Buffett
Image
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
Warren Buffett
Image
Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
Warren Buffett