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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.
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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
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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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Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.
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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.
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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.
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Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.
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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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The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.
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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
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I've never been very fully employed either.
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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
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It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.
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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
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