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Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.
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I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.
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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.
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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.
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I think any time you couple the term Wall Street with bailout or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.
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I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.
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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.
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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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I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?
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When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.
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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.
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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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I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.
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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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