Warren Buffett
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7 quotes we’ve traced to Warren Buffett
“If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy”
Verified“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”
Verified“Price is what you pay, value is what you get”
Verified“Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest”
Attributed“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”
Attributed“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1”
Disputed“You look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you”
DisputedNot actually Warren Buffett
Often misattributed to Warren Buffett
Famous lines widely pinned on Warren Buffett that we’ve traced to someone else.
“Don't cut your flowers and water your weeds”
actually Peter Lynch
“Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it”
actually Peter Lynch
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken”
actually Unknown — after Maria Edgeworth (1806), after Samuel Johnson (1748)
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