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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.
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This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.
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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
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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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I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.
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Accounting is the language of business.
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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.
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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
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The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.
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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.
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All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.
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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.
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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.
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