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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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I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.
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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.
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We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.
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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.
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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.
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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
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Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.
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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
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Look for companies with high profit margins.
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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.
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I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).
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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
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