Warren Buffet citáty

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„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.“

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

„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.“

„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.“

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

„Optimizmus je nejväčš nepriateľ každého investora.“

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

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

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

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

“Look for integrity, intelligence and energy.”

“Success in investing doesn't correlate with I. Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”

“Just because Charlie and I can clearly see dramatic growth ahead for an industry does not mean we can judge what its profit margins and returns on capital will be as a host of competitors battle for supremacy. At Berkshire we will stick with businesses whose profit picture for decades to come seems reasonably predictable. Even then, we will make plenty of mistakes.”

“Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics (bearing in mind that there are really only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't).”

“If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I've ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It's a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.”

“Management's objective is to achieve a return on capital over the long term which averages somewhat higher than that of American industry generally — while utilizing sound accounting and debt policies.”

“In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.”

“There's a whole bunch of things I don't know a thing about — I just stay away from those. So, I stay within what I call my circle of competence.”

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

“Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.”

“We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.”

“Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.”

“The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as "the possibility of loss or injury."”

“People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.”

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

“When returns on capital are ordinary, an earn-more-by-putting-up-more record is no great managerial achievement. You can get the same result personally while operating from your rocking chair. Just quadruple the capital you commit to a savings account and you will quadruple your earnings. You would hardly expect hosannas for that particular accomplishment. Yet, retirement announcements regularly sing the praises of CEOs who have, say, quadrupled earnings of their widget company during their reign — with no one examining whether this gain was attributable simply to many years of retained earnings and the workings of compound interest.”

“I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. … It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty.”

“I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death — abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term "thinking outside the box."”

“Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.”

“More than 99% of my wealth will go to philanthropy during my lifetime or at death. Measured by dollars, this commitment is large. In a comparative sense, though, many individuals give more to others every day.
Millions of people who regularly contribute to churches, schools, and other organizations thereby relinquish the use of funds that would otherwise benefit their own families. The dollars these people drop into a collection plate or give to United Way mean forgone movies, dinners out, or other personal pleasures. In contrast, my family and I will give up nothing we need or want by fulfilling this 99% pledge.
Moreover, this pledge does not leave me contributing the most precious asset, which is time. Many people, including — I’m proud to say — my three children, give extensively of their own time and talents to help others. Gifts of this kind often prove far more valuable than money.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

“You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K.”

“Never bet against the United States of America”

“The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.”

“I'm convinced that there is much inefficiency in the market.”