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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
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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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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
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In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
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Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
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I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.
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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.
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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.
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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
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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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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.
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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
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The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.
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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.
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