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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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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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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.
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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.
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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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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.
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Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.
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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.
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You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.
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You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.
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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.
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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
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