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Twenty Six Market Wisdoms from Warren Buffett

  
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1. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.26WB

2. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

3. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

4. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

5. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

6. 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.

7. It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price

8. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful

9. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. (more…)

Top 25 All-Time Warren Buffett Quotes

  
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When reading Berkshire Hathaway’s annual letters or hearing him speak, one can always take away a few great quotes from value investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett. It should come as no surprise that he is so good at dishing out words of wisdom. After all, he is known as the Oracle of Omaha. We thought it would be prudent to assemble some of his best advice in one cohesive post.MYQUOTES
1. “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1”
2. “In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.”
3. “The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.”
4. “Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” (more…)

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