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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.
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It's easier to create money than to spend it.
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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.
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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
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I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.
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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.
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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.
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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.
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You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.
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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.
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The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.
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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.
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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
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