3 December 2020 Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
