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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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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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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.
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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
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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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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Does the business have a consistent operating history?
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What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.
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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.
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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.
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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.
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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.
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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
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