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Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.
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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.
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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.
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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.
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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.
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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.
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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.
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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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