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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.
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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.
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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.
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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.
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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.
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I'll bring my tax returns you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
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The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.
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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory
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