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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.
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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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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.
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Never invest in a business you can't understand
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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
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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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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
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