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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
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You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not stocks, and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
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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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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
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