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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.
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My father was the best person i've ever known.
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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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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.
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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.
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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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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster they tell you nothing about the future.
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Returns decrease as motion increases.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment (2) our increased size and (3) substantially more competition.
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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.
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