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Someone is setting is the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
It take 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do thins differently.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Rick comes from not knowing what you are doing.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It is far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Predicting rain does not count. Building arks does.
Rule no. 1: Never lose money. Rule no. 2: Never forget rule no. 1.
We simply attempt to be fearful when other are greedy and to be greedy only when other are fearful.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leak boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it it the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
In the business world, the review mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut done for 10 years.
The only way to get love is to be loveable. It is very irritating if you have a lot of money. You would like to think you could write a check, I would like to buy a million dollar’ worth of love. But it does not work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richer people would be librarians.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you do not do too many things wrong.
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
The first rule is not to lose.
We enjoy the process for more than the proceeds.
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United State will go forward over time.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They should not. They have opted for a terrible long term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. The better the teacher, the better the student body.
You do things when the opportunities come along. If I get an idea next week, I will do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
A public opinion poll is not substitute for thought.
The business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior but simple behavior is more effective.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have double dip recession at all. I see our business coming back almost across the board.
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we have got a system that allows them to do it.
