A public-opinion poll is no substitute f... by Warren Buffett | We Heart Quotes

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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Warren Buffett

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Years

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

- Warren Buffett

Habit

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Warren Buffett

Value

Value is what you get.

- Warren Buffett

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

- Warren Buffett

I believe in giving my kids enough so they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing.

- Warren Buffett

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

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