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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.
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If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.
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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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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.
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Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
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I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.
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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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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.
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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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