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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.
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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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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.
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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
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We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.
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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.
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In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.
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The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.
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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.
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