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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.
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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.
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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
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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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