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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.
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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.
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I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.
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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.
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I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.
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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.
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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.
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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.
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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.
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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.
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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
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