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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
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It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.
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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.
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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
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The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.
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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.
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Calculate owner earnings to get a true reflection of value.
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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.
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The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.
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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.
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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.
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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
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The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
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Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
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