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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
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The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.
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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.
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If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary you only need to understand the actions you undertake.
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You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
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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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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
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Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
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Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
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