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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
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Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.
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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the lemming- like behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.
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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.
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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.
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Does the business have a consistent operating history?
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
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