Quotes
I not only hope that you come next year, but I hope I come next year,
The 94-year-old Berkshire Hathaway CEO also wrapped up the annual meeting with a joke ... he remarked
There’s never just one cockroach in the kitchen.” ... You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
Buffett pulled out one of his chestnuts again in 2018 on the question of whether troubled Wells Fargo & Co. — then a longtime Berkshire investment — might uncover additional wrongdoing ... And of over-leveraged financial firms during the worldwide crisis in 2008 he had this to say
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Buffett’s decision to limit his activities to a few kinds and to maximize his attention to them, and to keep doing so for 50 years, was a lollapalooza,
Munger said in an annual letterThe world is Berkshire’s oyster — a world offering us a range of opportunities far beyond those realistically open to most companies,
Buffett said in his annual letter released in 2015.
Warren Buffett represents everything that is good about American capitalism and America itself—investing in the growth of our nation and its businesses with integrity, optimism, and common sense,
said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
There’s never been someone like Warren, and countless people, myself included, have been inspired by his wisdom. It’s been one of the great privileges of my life to know him.”
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, echoed the sentimentI learned that if I put in a lot of work and was well-prepared, then success would be more likely,
Abel was quoted as saying by the Associated PressIf you start fooling shareholders, you will soon believe your own baloney and be fooling yourself as well,
Buffett wrote—underscoring the ethical standard Abel is expected to upholdIf I were being born today, I would just keep negotiating in the womb until they said, ‘You could be in the United States,
Buffett said
This has not been a dramatic bear market or anything of the sort,
he saidTwo of the directors who are my children know what I’m going to talk about,
he said
Warren has obviously been a remarkable teacher, and I have benefited from that for years."
Abel also praised Buffett, saying
It was a real working-class family where sometimes people had jobs and sometimes they didn’t,
Abel said about his childhood in a video posted on the Horatio Alger websiteIt's working way better with Greg Abel than with me, because I don't want to work as hard as he works,
Buffett saidI don’t need fancy clothes,
Buffett told CBS in 2013.
Greg Abel and the rest of the team has huge shoes to fill, and they have immense amounts of cash to put to work if they so desire,
said Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers
This helps alleviate concerns about who will replace him and may very well be well received by his followers,
Cardillo told AFPI do think that the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won’t be at our expense. The more prosperous we’ll become, and the safer we’ll feel,
Buffett said
There is no question that trade can be an act of war,
he said, without actually mentioning Trump by nameWe should do what we do best and they should do what they do best. That’s what we did originally."
On Saturday Buffett urged Washington to continue trading with the rest of the world, saying