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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.
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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.
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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.
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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.
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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.
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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.
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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
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Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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