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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.
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Turnarounds seldom turn.
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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.
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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
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House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.
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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.
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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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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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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.
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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when
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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.
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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.
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