A biography for Warren Buffetthasn’t been written yet.
“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
“Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
“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.”
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
“Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press”
“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.”
“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.”
“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.”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
“Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.”
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
“אם אתה מחפש נפט - אל תחפש בישראל; אם אתה מחפש אנשי היי-טק - ישראל היא המקום הנכון.”
“בסופו של יום, רק אחריי שהגאות נעלמת אפשר לראות מי שחה עירום.”
“יש מלחמת מעמדות. אבל זה המעמד שלי, המעמד העשיר, שעושה את המלחמה. ואנחנו מנצחים.”
“הדבר היחיד שאיש עסקים צריך מלבד שכל - הוא חשבונאות.”