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SOME WONDERFUL QUOTES TO REMEMBER BY WARREN BUFFETT


  1. "Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1."
  2. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
  3. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
  4. "The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage."
  5. "When I do invest, I don't care if the stock price goes from $10 to $2, But I do care if the value went from $10 to $2."
  6. "We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We just have to be more disciplined than the rest."
  7. "Do not pull all your eggs in one basket."
  8. "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."
  9. "The stock market is a device for transferring money from impatient to patient."
  10. "Never invest in a business you can't understand."
  11. "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing."
  12. "I try to invest in a business that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will."
  13. "An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan."
  14. "9 to 5 is making your Boss Rich! Your business is making Yourself Rich "
  15. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

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