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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.
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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.
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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.
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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.
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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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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.
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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.
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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.
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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
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