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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.
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When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.
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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.
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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.
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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.
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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.
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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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An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
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The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love.
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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
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