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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.
Warren Buffett
What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster they tell you nothing about the future.
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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.
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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.
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Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
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I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
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The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
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Never depend on a single source of income.
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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
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