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Warren Buffett
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 30
,
1930
Get
Life
Money
People
Time
You
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Inspirational
Today
Time
Long
Long Time
Tree
Shade
Someone
Long Time Ago
Because
Sitting
Planted
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
You
Build
Reputation
Think
Ruin
Minutes
About
Takes
Years
Five
Differently
Things
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett
Money
Lose
Rule
Never
Never Forget
Forget
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
Broken
Light
Too
Habit
Until
Felt
Heavy
Chains
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
Business
World
Mirror
Clearer
Always
Than
Rearview
Rearview Mirror
Business World
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
Knowledge
You
Not Knowing
Risk
Knowing
Doing
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
You
People
Better
Behavior
Out
Drift
Direction
Pick
Than
Hang
Yours
Whose
Associates
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
You
Naked
Swimming
Out
Only
Tide
Been
Discover
Goes
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
You
Yourself
Energy
Changing
Chronically
Find
More
Leaking
Leaks
Likely
Devoted
Than
Boat
Should
Productive
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Warren Buffett
Work
Love
Buy
You
Love Is
Money
Worth
Think
Way
Give
More
Only
Could
Write
Check
Like
Dollars
Lot
Very
Get
Lovable
Irritating
Away
Million
Million Dollars
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett
Hope
You
Money
Will
Rest
Rich
Down
Spend
Say
Out
Trickle
Give
More
Catching
Know
Always
Go
Years
American
Going
Just
Public
Then
Us
Worked
American Public
Last
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett
People
Ride
Advice
Those
Only
Take
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Rolls
Place
Subway
Who
Street
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
Best
Heroes
Did
Choose
Right
Thing
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
Difficult
Characteristic
Easy
Some
Seems
Likes
Make
Human
Perverse
Things
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett
Step
Over
Look
Around
Jump
Bars
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
Life
You
Long
Few
Too
Only
Wrong
Very
Few Things
Your
Many
Right
Things
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett
Money
Before
Out
Had
Simply
Known
Were
Dollars
Traits
Just
Them
Billion
Billion Dollars
Billionaires
Jerks
Basic
Brings
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren Buffett
Life
You
Age
Care
Life Is A
Big
Nobody
Disaster
Well
How
Account
dont Care
Get
Bank
Bank Account
Your
Thinks
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
Time
Wonderful
Enemy
Friend
Company
Mediocre
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
Today
Yesterday
Profit
Investor
Does
Growth
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
Fear
Greedy
Others
Fearful
Only
Attempt
Simply
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett
Buy
Wonderful
Better
Price
Fair
Than
Far
Company
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
Buy
You
Happy
Down
Market
Something
Only
Perfectly
Years
Hold
Shut
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett
Myself
Class
People
Better
Think
Further
High
More
High-End
Had
Like
Lot
End
Than
Upper
Maybe
Middle
Middle Class
Anything
Taxes
Cut
Lower
Should
Paying
Even
Ever
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.
Warren Buffett
Depression
World
Financial
Flu
Rose
Military
Other
President
States
Shocks
Expensive
Oil
Endured
Conflicts
Century
Epidemic
Wars
Traumatic
United
United States
Dozen
Resignation
Two
World Wars
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
Diversification
Only
Investors
Understand
Doing
Required
Wide
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