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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.
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I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.
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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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The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.
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We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
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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?
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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 thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.
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The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.
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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
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