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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.
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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic. And then they talk me down.
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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.
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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.
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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.
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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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