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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.
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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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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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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.
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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.
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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.
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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.
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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.
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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
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The best investment you can make is in yourself.
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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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Is management rational?
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
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