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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.
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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.
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I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.
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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.
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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were performing.
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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.
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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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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.
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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.
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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
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A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
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