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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
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There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
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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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Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin
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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.
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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.
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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.
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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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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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