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Warren Buffett
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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.
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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.
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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
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Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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