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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.
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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.
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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.
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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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It's never paid to bet against America.
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It is more important to say no to an opportunity, than to say yes.
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.
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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.
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I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.
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Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.
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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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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
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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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Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.
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The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.
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