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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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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.
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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
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Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.
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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.
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The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.
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Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.
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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
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I think confidence will come back.
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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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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.
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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that Price is what you pay value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.
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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.
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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.
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