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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.
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I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.
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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
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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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Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.
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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.
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Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.
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The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.
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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
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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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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.
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