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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
Entrepreneur
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.
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Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
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We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.
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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.
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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.
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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
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Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.
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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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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
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I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.
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The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
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Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.
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For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
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