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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.
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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.
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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.
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Always invest for the long term.
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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read one year's experience-twenty times.
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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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It's never paid to bet against America.
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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the know-nothings - must win.
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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.
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
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