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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.
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Never get too hung up on mistakes.
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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.
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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
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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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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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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
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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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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
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