"When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year."
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"Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong."
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"We continue to make more money when snoring than when active."
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"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."
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"If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume."
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"The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies."
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"When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover."
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"It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes"."
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"A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock."
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"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing."
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"First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots."
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"The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions."
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"Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process."
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"Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic."
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"In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose"
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"I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor."
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"The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it."
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"Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification."
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"Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise."
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned"
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