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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Greed
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