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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.
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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
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