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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.
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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.
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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.
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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.
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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.
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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
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It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
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You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.
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I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
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America should stand for more than just wealth.
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