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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
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Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.
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I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today.
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