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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.
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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.
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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
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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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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.
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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.
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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.
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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as long-short, macro, international equities. At Berkshire our only style box is smart.
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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.
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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.
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I'll bring my tax returns you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.
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An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
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The wise man once said invest young
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I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today.
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