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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
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I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.
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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money
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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.
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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.
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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast
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It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.
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I've never been very fully employed either.
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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