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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.
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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.
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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.
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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.
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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.
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If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller
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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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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.
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You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.
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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
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We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.
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I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.
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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.
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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.
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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
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