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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.
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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.
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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.
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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
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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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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: Every putt makes someone happy.
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If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
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There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.
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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.
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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.
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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.
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