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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
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Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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America should stand for more than just wealth.
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I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
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So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.
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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.
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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
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There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.
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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.
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Never invest in a business you can't understand
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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
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When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.
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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.
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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
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