
Warren Buffett (s. 30.8.1930 Omaha, Nebraska) on yksi maailman tunnetuimmista ja menestyneimmistä sijoittajista. Hän onkin saanut lempinimen Oracle of Omaha eli Omahan oraakkeli. Buffett tunnetaan arvosijoittamisen strategiastaan, jossa hän keskittyy ostamaan aliarvostettuja yrityksiä hyvällä hinnalla. Lisäksi hän sijoittaa ainoastaan sellaisiin yrityksiin, joiden toimialaa ymmärtää itse. Buffett on myös lahjoittanut valtavia summia hyväntekeväisyyteen sekä kritisoinut Yhdysvaltojen rikkaita hemmottelevaa veropolitiikkaa. Menestynyt sijoittaja tunnetaan lisäksi viisauksistaan, joissa vaikeat asiat yksinkertaistetaan ja tiivistetään olennaiseen.
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Paras koulutus, jonka voit hankkia, on sijoittamalla itseesi. Sen ei tarvitse aina tarkoittaa korkeakoulua tai yliopistoa.
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Osta sellaisen yrityksen osakkeita, jonka liiketoiminta on niin upeaa, että idioottikin osaisi johtaa yritystä. Sillä yhtenä päivänä idiootti tulee johtamaan yritystä.
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Hinta on mitä maksat, arvo on mitä saat.
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"Laajaa hajauttamista tarvitaan, jos sijoittajat eivät tiedä, mitä tekevät." - Warren Buffet
Älä välitä politiikasta ja talousennusteista, kun sijoitat osakkeisiin. Poliittiset ja taloudelliset shokit ovat parhaita hetkiä ostaa osakkeita.
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Ole pelokas kun kaikki muut ovat ahneita ja ahne kun muut ovat pelokkaita.
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On paljon parempaa ostaa mahtava yritys käypään hintaan kuin käypä yritys mahtavaan hintaan.
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Mitä enemmän käyt kauppaa, sitä heikommin menestyt.
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"Elämässä tarvitsee tehdä oikein vain harvoja asioita – kunhan ei tee väärin liian monia asioita." - Warren Buffet
Riskit seuraavat siitä, ettet tiedä, mitä olet tekemässä.
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Tämän päivän sijoittaja ei hyödy eilispäivän kasvusta.
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Jos bisnes menestyy, osakekurssi seuraa perässä.
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Wall Street on ainoa paikka, jossa Rolls Roycella ajavat hakevat neuvoja henkilöiltä, jotka kulkevat metrolla.
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Osakkeet selviävät aina kriiseistä.
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Strateginen sijoittaja on joku, joka maksaa liian paljon.
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Meidän suosikki-sijoitushorisonttimme on ikuinen.
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"Paras rahamäärä perillisille jätettäväksi on sellainen, jolla he tuntevat voivansa tehdä mitä tahansa, mutta eivät voi olla tekemättä mitään." - Warren Buffet
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
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Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.
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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.
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You should never test the depth of the water with both feet.
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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
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Get something to improve yourself at least 1% each day.
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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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"The more you learn, the more you earn.”
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.
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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
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If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.
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We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
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A good business is not always a good purchase – although it’s a good place to look for one.
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Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.
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"Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people."
Intensity is the price of excellence.
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
“The three most important words in investing are ‘margin of safety.’”
“If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
“Invest in companies you believe in.”
"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."
“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 don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence.
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
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Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
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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.
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“Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.”
“Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
”Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”
“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble”
“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”
“Investors should be sceptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
“Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.”
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”