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STEPHEN BALDWIN Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read ...
SAM WYLY I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.
BETHENNY FRANKEL One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Wa...
GUY SPIER We've seen Warren Buffett take positions and ultimately acquire companies
ALEXANDER PARIS I would never bet against Warren Buffett if I were sitting at a poker table with him.
TONY ROSS Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do...
BILL GATES Even Warren Buffett is buying gold because he sees the dollar as weak.
JAMES TURK His track record is comparable to Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett, ... statistically ... shouldn’t ...
JIM DAVIDSON With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors ...
BILLY PARISH I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
DAVID KARP Over the years, I learned to just buy what I liked. It's not about buying something you think might ...
BLAINE BUSH If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay ther...
TWIGGY Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had...
ROGER LOWENSTEIN I think it was a great opportunity. It's not everyday that students have the chance to meet an inves...
ANGELINE LAVIN If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfe...
ROBERT SKIDELSKY Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buff...
LORA M. CECERE When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attent...
GUY SPIER But if you didn't buy a place 10 years ago, it's hard.
DANIEL RANALLI I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
BILL GATES The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett Schoo...
FELIX ROHATYN We're no longer talking about something that's 10 years down the road.
KARL KROGER Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett ma...
SHIV NADAR Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot chang...
ROGER LOWENSTEIN Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many p...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah W...
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BUZZ GARVIN I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people b...
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DR HITESH C SHETH I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million ...
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DONNA CALDER It is the first time in 10 years that we have shut our doors [as a company].
BENJAMIN BEQUER Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwh...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI If something happens to the shuttle on this one, it would be mistakenly shut down. Or [NASA would] r...
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BOB MCINTYRE Some things that cost $5 to buy several years ago now costs $10 just to repair.
UNKNOWN If someone has 10 or 20 years, daily fluctuations in the market don't matter at all,
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JACK COLE If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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CHRIS EVANS The original furniture had been sold off, and we tracked it down and measured and replicated it. It ...
ED BAEHREND There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in stream...
REED HASTINGS I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the...
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ED PERKINS Something has to be done. Many of the volunteers have been volunteering for 10 to 15 years. They're ...
MARK ANDERSON The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are...
BARRY RITHOLTZ We ultimately expect the overall market to be down...and end up with a correction that totals 10 to ...
CHARLES BLOOD Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
MARK SKOUSEN We?re in it for the long term. We expect to hold a stock at least five or 10 years.
MARTIN BATES From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - ...
GUY SPIER It's just something I've been doing for 10 years.
AL HAMMELL We'll probably shut him down for the year, ... If he can't pitch in Cleveland, we'll shut him down. ...
LOU PINIELLA Considering the strong demand among people in the market, 10-year yield won't stay above 1.6 percent...
AKIHIKO INOUE Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone...
BEN STEIN No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it...
CONRAD VEIDT If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would ...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG They were pretty much blatant about it -- that the legislation would shut them down, and they didn't...
JEFF ROSENTHAL Rule number one of investing: Never lose money. Rule number two: Never forget rule number one.
WARREN BUFFETT Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurabl...
ROGER LOWENSTEIN For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON We think the days of buy-and-hold are over. It's been an 18-year, uninterrupted secular bull market....
DAVID TICE Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ good to go for Sunday or if he needs to shut it down.
MIKE TICE If state and local spending follows a trend similar to that of federal agencies over the past 10 yea...
JAMES KROUSE Ideally ... we think that a further step here would be to phase out capital gains if investor are ho...
DAVID GARDNER People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean...
KEITH ELLISON I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that...
ALEX CHILTON For consumers, it may be waiting to see how the market shakes out a bit before deciding to buy at a ...
ALLEN FISHBEIN And that is certainly a new use of the filibuster and something which threatens to shut down our ent...
TODD AKIN I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future y...
PETER LYNCH If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo...
GARTH NIX If you want to be somebody be yourself. If you want to be happy be. If you want to go somewhere or d...
BRANDON HOFER The key to shutting down an offense is to shut down their receivers. If you shut down the passing ga...
JUSTIN PHINISEE You gotta hold that gate shut.
RICK JAMES If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone ...
C. JOYBELL C. Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax syst...
JOE WALSH This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much...
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS The market is just waiting for the consumer price index. If the figures are strong, market players a...
FUMIHIKO KAWANO The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA When refineries are shut down naturally, the amount of fuel you deliver to the market would be lower...
BEN BROCKWELL Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of tec...
ATSUTOSHI NISHIDA Small cap value funds tend to hold up better when the market is down.
CLAUDIA MOTT The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him,
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JIMMY BUFFETT Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now a...
JIMMY BUFFETT If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
JIMMY BUFFETT I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
JIMMY BUFFETT Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
JIMMY BUFFETT If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT We are the people our parents warned us about.
JIMMY BUFFETT Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
JIMMY BUFFETT Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
JIMMY BUFFETT These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like...
JIMMY BUFFETT If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.
JIMMY BUFFETT Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
JIMMY BUFFETT You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will writ...
JIMMY BUFFETT Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
JIMMY BUFFETT If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
JIMMY BUFFETT It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
JIMMY BUFFETT Indecision may or may not be my problem.
JIMMY BUFFETT I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.
JIMMY BUFFETT I could go on for hours telling stories..but I guess youhad to be there
JIMMY BUFFETT If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
JIMMY BUFFETT I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
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