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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.
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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.
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Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.
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Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.
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I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].
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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
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I never try to predict the market.
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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.
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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
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I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.
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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
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I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.
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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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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.
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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the know-nothings - must win.
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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
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If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.
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The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.
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