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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.
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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.
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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read one year's experience-twenty times.
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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.
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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
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The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
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You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
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Turnarounds seldom turn.
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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
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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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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.
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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
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