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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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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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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.
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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.
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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that Price is what you pay value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
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If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.
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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.
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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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If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller
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All day you wait for the pitch you like then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
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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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When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.
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