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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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The key to success is emotional stability.
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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.
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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry
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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.
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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
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An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.
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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
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Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.
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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment (2) our increased size and (3) substantially more competition.
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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.
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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.
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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.
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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.
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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.
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