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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when
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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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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.
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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.
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You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.
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The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.
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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
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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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We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
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