Warren Buffet citáty page 3

„Vybudovať si dobré meno trvá 20 rokov a zničiť ho je možné za päť minút.“

„So zlým človekom nemôžete uzavrieť dobrý obchod.“

„Nikdy sa nevsádzajte proti Spojeným štátom americkým.“

„Kritizujte skupinu - chváľte jednotlivca.“

„Nikdy neskúšajte hĺbku rieky oboma nohami.“

„Dnes niekto sedí v tieni pretože ktosi kedysi dávno zasadil strom.“

Warren Buffet citáty a výroky

„Bez vášne nemáte energiu. Bez energie nemáte nič.“

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Prisudzované výroky
Varianta: Dnes niekto sedí v tieni pretože ktosi kedysi dávno zasadil strom.

„Jediné, čo som v živote pochopil, je primitívne jednoduché: Keď všetci okolo predávajú, ja nakupujem. A naopak. Nepochybujem o logike. Vidím predsa, že väčšina je chudobná a menšina bohatá.“

„Úprimnosť je veľmi drahý dar. Neočakávajte ho od sebeckých ľudí.“

„Zlato sa ťaží z podzemia v Afrike alebo inde. Potom ho roztavíme, vykopeme ďalšiu dieru, skryjeme ho tam a zaplatíme ľuďom aby stáli okolo a strážili ho. Zlato nemá žiaden úžitok. Každý, ktorý to sleduje z Marsu by sa škrabal za hlavu.“

„Cena je to, čo zaplatíš. Hodnota je to, čo dostaneš.“

„Ak si kupujete veci, ktoré nepotrebujete, tak čoskoro budete musieť predať veci, ktoré potrebujete.“

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Prisudzované výroky

„Nikdy nebuďte závislí len na jednom zdroji príjmu. Investujte, aby ste si vytvorili druhý zdroj.“

„Nič nepridá vášmu životu toľko, ako koncentrácia všetkej energie na obmedzený počet cieľov“

„Jednoduché nie je prostoduché. Jednoduché je geniálne. “

„V obchodnom svete je spätné zrkadlo vždy jasnejšie ako čelné sklo.“

„400 z nás zaplatí nižšiu daň ako recepční alebo upratovačky, ak by ste chceli vedieť.“

„Viete, čo je najdôležitejšie, keď sa ocitnete v jame? Prestante kopať.“

„Optimizmus je nejväčš nepriateľ každého investora.“

Prisudzované výroky

„Triedny boj existuje, dobre, ale to moja trieda ho vyvoláva. A vyhráva.“

„Ak niečo nestojí za námahu, tak nemá zmysel to robiť dobre.“

„Je to triedna vojna. Moja trieda vyhráva, ale nemala by.“

Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: Porovnaj: Reader's Digest Výber, apríl 1996, s. 5

“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”

Warren Buffet: Citáty v angličtine

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

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.”

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

“I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.”

“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”

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

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

“[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/09/28/25-best-warren-buffett-quotes.aspx "25 Best Warren Buffett Quotes" The Motley Fool (28 September 2014)
Quotes from the press

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

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”

As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128

“be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.”

“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

“I am not a businessman, I am an artist”

“We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.”

“It’s simply to say that managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers is the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.”

1999 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, as quoted in "Why Won't Buffett Invest in Tech Stocks?" at Motley Fool (6 March 2000) http://www.fool.com/boringport/2000/boringport000306.htm

“Confidence comes back one at a time, but fear, is instantaneous.
With an interview with Tae Kim, CNBC, 12 Sept 2018”

1982 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1982.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

“Upon leaving [the derivatives business], our feelings about the business mirrored a line in a country song: "I liked you better before I got to know you so well."”

Other

“I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often.”

2008 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

“Those who attended [the annual meeting] last year saw your Chairman pitch to Ernie Banks. This encounter proved to be the titanic duel that the sports world had long awaited. After the first few pitches — which were not my best, but when have I ever thrown my best? — I fired a brushback at Ernie just to let him know who was in command. Ernie charged the mound, and I charged the plate. But a clash was avoided because we became exhausted before reaching each other.”

"Part 2 — Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/part-2-billionaire-warren-buffett-says-gop-health-reform-bills-relief-rich/ PBS Newshour (27 June 2017) <br class="br">Other

“Capitalism is all about somebody coming and trying to take the castle. Now what you need is …. you need a castle that has some durable competitive advantage — some castle that has a moat around it.”

1999 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/final1999pdf.pdf <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)