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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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We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.
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I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.
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An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
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You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.
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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.
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Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.
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The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.
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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.
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People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast
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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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