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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
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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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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.
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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.
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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.
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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.
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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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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
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