Warren Buffett is one of the most powerful investors in the world.
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Today Buffett is CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, but he bought his first stock when he was just 11.
And he’s been very, very good at it. Buffett is worth $82.5 billion, according to Forbes, making him the third richest person alive (behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his friend and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates).
So how does he do it? Here are five of his best bits of investing wisdom.
1. Investing is a long game
“Now if they think they can dance in and out [of the market] and buy and sell stocks, they ought to head for Las Vegas. I mean, they can’t do that,” Buffett told “Squawk Box” October 2014. “But what they can do is determinate that there’s a number of solid American businesses, a great number of them, and if you own a cross section of them and particularly if you buy them over time, you basically can’t lose.”
“I know what markets are going to do over a long period of time: They’re going to go up. But in terms of what’s going to happen in a day or a week or a month or a year even, I’ve never felt that I knew it and I’ve never felt that was important,” Buffett told Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” in February 2016.
”I will say that in 10 or 20 or 30 years, I think stocks will be a lot higher than they are now. ”
Buffett has also likened buying stocks to owning more tangible assets. “If you own stocks like you’d own a farm or apartment house, you don’t get a quote on those every day or every week,” Buffett told “Squawk Box.” So, too, should it be when you’re buying a share of a company.
2. Diversify
To protect your money, buy stocks in various different kinds of companies and spread your purchases out over time.
“The best thing with stocks, actually, is to buy them consistently over time,” Buffett told “Squawk Box” in February 2017. “You want to spread the risk as far as the specific companies you’re in by owning a diversified group, and you diversify over time by buying this month, next month, the year after, the year after, the year after.”
3. Stocks are now generally better than bonds
“If you save money, you can buy bonds, you can buy a farm, you can buy an apartment/house — or you can buy a part of an American business,” Buffett said in February. “And if you buy a 10-year bond now, you’re paying over 40 times earnings for something whose earnings can’t grow. You compare that to buying equities, good businesses, I don’t think there’s any comparison.”
A 10-year government bond opened the day at a 2.32 percent interest rate and closed at 2.49 percent on Feb. 27, 2017, when Buffett made the comment. As of Dec. 17, 2018, the 10-year government bond had an interest rate of 2.87 percent.
Meanwhile, the benchmark S&P 500 Index has averaged an annual return of 10.2 percent over the past 30 years, according to FactSet.
Clearly, even as Buffett himself has said, anything can happen in markets. If bond interest rates overtake stock market returns, then this advice no longer holds. “But I would say this: If the 10-year stays at 2.30 [percent interest rate] and it would stay there for 10 years, you would regret very much not having bought stocks now,” Buffett said in February.
“The one thing I’m sure of is that overtime, stocks from this level will beat bonds from this level,” Buffett told “Squawk Box” October 2017. “Stocks [have] been so much more attractive than bonds for a long time now.”
4. You can’t time the market
“You’re making a terrible mistake if you stay out of a game that you think is going to be very good over time because you think you can pick a better time to enter it,” he told “Squawk Box” in February 2017.
5. There’s no room to be emotional
“Some people should not own stocks at all because they just get too upset with price fluctuations. If you’re gonna do dumb things because your stock goes down, you shouldn’t own a stock at all,” said Buffett told “Squawk Box” in February 2018.
By comparison, “If you buy your house at $20,000 and somebody comes along the next day and says, ’I’ll pay you $15,000, you don’t sell it because the quote’s [$15,000],” added. “Some people are not actually emotionally or psychologically fit to own stocks, but I think that more of them would be,” Buffett said, if they were more educated on what they were really buying, which is part of a business.
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Buffet is a traitor to the America that gave him the opportunities he had to get filthy rich. Buffet has been buying US companies, closing them down and sending the jobs to China for cheaper labor. He bought out nearly all the boot companies like Tony Lama, Justin, etc. and now they’re made in China and the quality is crap. My buddy is a boot and shoe repairman and said he can’t even resole most of those boots anymore because they’re made so cheap. They’re like disposable boots. I can’t wait until Trump’s tariffs go into effect on all that crap that Buffet and others are making in China. Tariffs on Chinese made things should be so high that people will buy US made things once again.
Thank you
There were two number 4’s
At 10 he sucked off a rich jew that is how it works. They are PEDOPHILES
Simplicity
Wow. Just wow.
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He does know when to buy he made a buffett indicator which tells if the stocks are overvalued or not
Point 3 is labelled as 4.
RICH PEOPLE ARE TAKING OUR MONEY BECAUSE WE ARE IGNORANT
Warren doesn’t diversify at all actually, hes quoted as saying “Diversification is protection against ignorance”
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Crooked lier
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warren buffett surely does not know when to buy stocks. Look at his recent buys…
Great video
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Don’t find any thing exceptional. Know these advice before
Warren Buffett is lying like the news always has done. Liars manipulating stocks for themselves. News manipulates markets right? So who thinks the news wouldn’t manipulate the stories just to make profits on the stock market. Like HOW STAGED MASS SHOOTINGS BOOST GUN STOCKS??!! OH yeah they do. No brainer. What theif with all that power of tell lie vision wouldn’t use it to make idk….TRILLIONS?? Where is the 22 Trillion Pentagon? Where is the 45 trillion Federal Reserve? How much do the American people owe from this? 23 trillion debt? On OUR BACKS UNACCOUNTED FOR?? You all have GOT to be kidding right?
Hes just another money hungry mogul
Be wary of stock advice from him. He’s a billionaire market maker, so his time horizon, risk tolerance, and capital are not the same as the average joe out there.
Dont invest in stocks idiots they are about to pull the plug and get your money again.
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He is quiet these days because he is busy “shopping” at the “2018 Xmas stock clearance sale”!
I knew of an old man who had 10 million dollars worth of shares. Was losing is mind so lived with one of his daughters and her partner who had to put things on hold and take care of him when he had more then enough to pay for help around the clock
Apple is at 52 week low, why don’t you buy more lmao
He is lying
He says don’t try and time the market, while holding 115 billion dollars in cash waiting for the market to crash lol!! Come on Buffet