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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
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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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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
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If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
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Never get too hung up on mistakes.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.
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Valuing a business is part art and part science.
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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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It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.
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I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.
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I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
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Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
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If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.
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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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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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