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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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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.
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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
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When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.
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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
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You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.
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There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.
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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
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