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Investing is simple, but not easy.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
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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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The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.
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My father was the best person i've ever known.
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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices
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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.
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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.
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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.
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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count building arks does.
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