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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when
Warren Buffett
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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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