What we learn from history is that peopl... by Warren Buffett | We Heart Quotes

Philanthropist billionaire Investor Stocks Berkshire Hathaway

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

- Warren Buffett

Other quotes by Warren Buffett

Value Today Nothing People

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

- Warren Buffett

Business

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

- Warren Buffett

Financial

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

- Warren Buffett

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.

- Warren Buffett

Life People

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

- Warren Buffett

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

- Warren Buffett

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