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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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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
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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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I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
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Investment must be rational if you can't understand it, don't do it.
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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.
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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
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Never lie under any circumstances.
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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.
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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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If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.
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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.
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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.
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We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.
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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
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