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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.
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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
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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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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.
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I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.
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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.
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When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.
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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.
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A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
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Never depend on a single source of income.
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