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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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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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When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.
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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.
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If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
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Never invest in a business you don't understand.
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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
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I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.
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I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.
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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.
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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.
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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.
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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
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