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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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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'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.
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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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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.
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Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
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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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