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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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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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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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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.
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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
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I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.
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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.
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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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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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Very successful people say no to almost everything.
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Never invest in a business you can't understand
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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as long-short, macro, international equities. At Berkshire our only style box is smart.
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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.
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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
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You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself
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I'll bring my tax returns you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
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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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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.
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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.
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