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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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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.
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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.
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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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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
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The future is never clear you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.
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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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I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.
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