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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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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 never invest in anything that I don't understand.
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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.
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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.
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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
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It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
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In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.
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As one of my older friends says, Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. Let's take a stab at it, anyway.
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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry
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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.
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It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
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We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.
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... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.
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