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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.
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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.
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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.
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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.
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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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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.
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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.
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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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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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