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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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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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The advice you never go broke taking a profit is foolish.
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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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A stock doesn't know that you own it.
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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
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All day you wait for the pitch you like then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.
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Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.
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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.
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