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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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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 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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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
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You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.
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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.
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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
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You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.
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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.
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The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.
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