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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.
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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.
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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.
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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock
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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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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.
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I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.
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It's easier to create money than to spend it.
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I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today.
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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory
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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.
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The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.
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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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The extraordinary business does not require good management.
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Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one
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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
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