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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic. And then they talk me down.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.
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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.
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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
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It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.
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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.
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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.
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The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill
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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count building arks does.
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I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as long-short, macro, international equities. At Berkshire our only style box is smart.
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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as focused investing.
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