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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Investment must be rational if you can't understand it, don't do it.
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We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.
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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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Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
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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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I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.
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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.
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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.
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We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.
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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.
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... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.
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Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.
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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
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Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.
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