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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.
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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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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.
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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
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The extraordinary business does not require good management.
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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.
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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
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I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.
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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts the Depression a dozen or so recessions and financial panics oil shocks a flu epidemic and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Is management candid with the shareholders?
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No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.
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I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.
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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.
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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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