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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
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Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.
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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic. And then they talk me down.
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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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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.
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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.
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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.
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My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.
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