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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 to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
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Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.
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If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary you only need to understand the actions you undertake.
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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.
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Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.
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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
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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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Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
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When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.
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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
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