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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: Every putt makes someone happy.
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