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Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.
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Investment must be rational if you can't understand it, don't do it.
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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.
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Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.
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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.
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I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.
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Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.
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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.
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Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.
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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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A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.
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I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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