Warren Buffett says

“Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.”

—Warren Buffett

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“Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.”

—Warren Buffett

“Buy the dip.”

—Warren Buffett

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”

—Warren Buffett

“A good business is not always a good purchase - although it's a good place to look for one.”

—Warren Buffett

“Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: “the bezzle,” defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.”

—Warren Buffett

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

—Warren Buffett

“Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.”

—Warren Buffett

“If options aren't a form of compensation, what are they? If compensation isn't an expense, what is it? And, if expenses shouldn't go into the calculation of earnings, where in the world should they go?”

—Warren Buffett

“You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”

—Warren Buffett

“For these investors, it would have been far better if Orville had failed to get off the ground at Kitty Hawk: The more the industry has grown, the worse the disaster for owners.”

—Warren Buffett

“If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

—Warren Buffett

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”

“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

—Warren Buffett

“Can you imagine any public company embracing a business model that would lead to the decline in revenue that we experienced from 1986 through 1999?”

—Warren Buffett

“Over-all, we probably would have retained better prospects for the next five years if profits had not risen so dramatically this year.”

—Warren Buffett