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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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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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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.
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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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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
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My father was the best person i've ever known.
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The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.
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