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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
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The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.
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I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.
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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
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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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An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.
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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.
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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.
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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.
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I never invest in anything that I don't understand.
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