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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
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Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.
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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'
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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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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.
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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.
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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
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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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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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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
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