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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.
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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
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I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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Focus alone is not enough putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
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We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
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I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.
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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.
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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.
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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'
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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
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House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.
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Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.
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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
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