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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.
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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.
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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
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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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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.
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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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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.
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AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love. But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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