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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.
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You don't have to be a genius to invest well
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
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Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.
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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.
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Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.
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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
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When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
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