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Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me. — Jimmy Buffett

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up. — Warren Buffett

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable. — Warren Buffett

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever. — Jimmy Buffett

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. — Jimmy Buffett

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing. — Howard Warren Buffett

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it. — Warren Buffett

If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions. — Warren Buffett

Can you imagine any public company embracing a business model that would lead to the decline in revenue that we experienced from 1986 through 1999? — Warren Buffett

Look for companies with high profit margins. — Warren Buffett

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap. — Jimmy Buffett

If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers. — Warren Buffett

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job. — Warren Buffett

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars. — Jimmy Buffett

Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one — Warren Buffett

If life gives you limes make margaritas. — Jimmy Buffett

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather. — Jimmy Buffett

If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it. — Warren Buffett

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is. — Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market. — Michael Lewis

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. — Warren Buffett

Cheeseburger in paradise! — Jimmy Buffett

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free. — Jimmy Buffett

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done. — Warren Buffett

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition. — Jimmy Buffett

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor. — Warren Buffett

One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett. — Guy Spier

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. — Warren Buffett

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific. — Howard Warren Buffett

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living. — Warren Buffett

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history. — Warren Buffett

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds. — Jimmy Buffett

When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it. — Warren Buffett

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man. — Jimmy Buffett

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again. — Warren Buffett

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited. — Warren Buffett

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch. — Warren Buffett

My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever. — Warren Buffett

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. — Jimmy Buffett

Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you. — Warren Buffett

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. — Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded. — Warren Buffett

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. — Jimmy Buffett

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active. — Warren Buffett

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. — Jimmy Buffett

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns. — Jimmy Buffett

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business. — Warren Buffett

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. — Warren Buffett

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. — Warren Buffett

Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way. — Jimmy Buffett

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent. — Jimmy Buffett

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying. — Warren Buffett

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two. — Warren Buffett

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. — Warren Buffett

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. — Warren Buffett

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. — Warren Buffett

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. — Jimmy Buffett

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ... — Jimmy Buffett

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend. — Jimmy Buffett

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass. — Warren Buffett

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up — Warren Buffett

Always invest for the long term. — Warren Buffett

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. — Warren Buffett

Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it. — Warren Buffett

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn. — Jimmy Buffett

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett

I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons. — Howard Graham Buffett

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. — Warren Buffett

Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them. — Warren Buffett

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. — Warren Buffett

As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway. — Warren Buffett

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. — Warren Buffett

In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity. — Warren Buffett

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast. — Jimmy Buffett

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others. — Jimmy Buffett

Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer — Warren Buffett

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. — Warren Buffett

When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. — Warren Buffett

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love ... — Jimmy Buffett

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise. — Jimmy Buffett

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up. — Warren Buffett

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success. — Warren Buffett

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. — Warren Buffett

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. — Warren Buffett

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves. — Warren Buffett

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals. — Warren Buffett

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent. — Warren Buffett

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. — Warren Buffett

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. — Warren Buffett

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers! — Jimmy Buffett

Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way. — Jimmy Buffett

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you. — Warren Buffett

Stop trying to predict ... — Warren Buffett