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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.
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At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.
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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.
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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
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Investing is simple, but not easy.
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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.
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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
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