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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.
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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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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.
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We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
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I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.
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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
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I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.
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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.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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Does the business have a consistent operating history?
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