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Have you ever wondered 
If, how, when and where, 
You would find true love 
And find someone who cared?

Funeral Poems for Brothers

The fountains mingle 
with the river, 
And the rivers 
with the ocean; 
The winds of heaven 
mix for ever 
With a sweet emoion;
Why not I with thine?

“If you invested in a low-cost index fund--where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years--you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.” ― Warren Buffett

“From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won’t do; it’s mindboggling screw-ups that are required.” ― Warren Buffett

“The key is having more information than the other guy – then analysing it right and using it rationally.” ― Warren Buffett

“Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.” ― Warren Buffett

“For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” ― Warren Buffett

“If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you’ve got a very good business. If you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10%, then you’ve got a bad business.” ― Warren Buffett

“Despite our policy of candor, we will discuss our activities in marketable securities only to the extent legally required. Good investment ideas are rare, valuable and subject to competitive appropriation just as good product or business acquisition ideas are.” ― Warren Buffett

“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” ― Warren Buffett

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” ― Warren Buffett

“I like it when people say, ‘Gee, that’s a pretty good-looking painting.’ But it’s my painting, and when somebody says, ‘Why don’t you use more red instead of blue?’ Good-bye. It’s my painting. And I don’t care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That’s one of the great things about it.” ― Warren Buffett

“Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.” ― Warren Buffett

“Charlie’s dictum: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there.” ― Warren Buffett

“Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” ― Warren Buffett

“We are suspicious of those CEOs who regularly claim they do know the future—and we become downright incredulous if they consistently reach their declared targets. Managers that always promise to “make the numbers” will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.” ― 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

“You should never test the depth of the water with both feet.” ― Warren Buffett

“In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions.” ― Warren Buffett

“It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.” ― Warren Buffett

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” ― Warren Buffett

“There is no tougher job in corporate America than running an airline: Despite the huge amounts of equity capital that have been injected into it, the industry, in aggregate, has posted a net loss since its birth after Kitty Hawk. Airline managers need brains, guts, and experience—and” ― Warren Buffett

“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” ― Warren Buffett

“If you can't tell whose side someone is on, they are not on yours.” ― Warren Buffett

“Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.” ― Warren Buffett

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” ― Warren Buffett

“ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.” ― Warren Buffett

“If you wait till you know everything it's too late” ― Warren Buffett

“Talking to Time Magazine a few years back, Peter Drucker got to the heart of things: “I will tell you a secret: Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work . . . dealmaking is romantic, sexy. That’s why you have deals that make no sense.” ― Warren Buffett

“To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job” ― Warren Buffett

“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.” ― Warren Buffett

“It is not greed that drives the world but envy.” ― Warren Buffett

“Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.” ― Warren Buffett

“There's never just one cockroach in the kitchen.” ― Warren Buffett

“If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.” ― Warren Buffett

“Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.” ― Warren Buffett

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.” ― Warren Buffett

“If you see somebody with even reasonable intelligence and a terrific passion for what they do and who can get people around them to march, even when those people can't see over the top of the next hill, things are gonna happen” ― Warren Buffett

“our experience with newly-minted MBAs has not been that great. Their academic records always look terrific and the candidates always know just what to say; but too often they are short on personal commitment to the company and general business savvy. It’s difficult to teach a new dog old tricks.” ― Warren Buffett

“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

“Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about” ― Warren Buffett

“It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.” ― Warren Buffett

“as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” ― Warren Buffett

“What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.” ― Warren Buffett

“stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: “Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.” ― Warren Buffett

“But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.” ― 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

“(Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: “I’m no genius,” he said. “I’m smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.”)” ― Warren Buffett

“In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” ― Warren Buffett

“The more you learn, the more you earn.” ― Warren Buffett

“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom” ― Warren Buffett

“Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.” ― Warren Buffett

“The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.” ― Warren Buffett

“In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.” ― Warren Buffett

“Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.” ― Warren Buffett

“Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press” ― Warren Buffett

“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” ― Warren Buffett

“An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.” ― Warren Buffett

“When a person with money meets a person with experience, the one with experience ends up with the money and the one with money leaves with experience.” ― Warren Buffett