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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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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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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.
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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.
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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
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You can't buy what is popular and do well.
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I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.
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I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.
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The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.
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