{"id":50364,"date":"2014-01-02T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50364"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:00:39","slug":"11-warren-buffett-quotes-on-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/50364\/11-warren-buffett-quotes-on-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Warren Buffett quotes on investing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren Buffett, the American business magnate,\u00a0entrepreneur, and philanthropist\u00a0is widely considered the most successful investor of his time.<\/p>\n

Forbes put his wealth at approximately\u00a0$58.5 billion, making him\u00a0the world’s fourth richest man, with investments including\u00a0ketchup maker H.J. Heinz, and his\u00a0company\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway being the largest\u00a0shareholder\u00a0in Coca-Cola at 8.9%, or 400 million shares.<\/p>\n

BusinessTech shares 11 quotes on investing as spoken by Buffett over his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

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  1. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”<\/li>\n
  2. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”<\/li>\n
  3. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”<\/li>\n
  4. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”<\/li>\n
  5. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”<\/li>\n
  6. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”<\/li>\n
  7. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”<\/li>\n
  8. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”<\/li>\n
  9. “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”<\/li>\n
  10. “We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.'”<\/li>\n
  11. “Our favorite holding period is forever.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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