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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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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.
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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.
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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.
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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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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money
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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
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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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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.
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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers
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It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.
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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.
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There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.
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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.
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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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