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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.
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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
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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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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
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When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.
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