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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.
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If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment (2) our increased size and (3) substantially more competition.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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Exercise humility and restraint.
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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.
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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.
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I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.
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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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