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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
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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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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
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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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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
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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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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.
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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.
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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
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Never get too hung up on mistakes.
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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.
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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
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In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.
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