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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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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
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I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.
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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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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.
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It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.
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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
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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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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.
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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.
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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.
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Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.
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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.
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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.
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Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.
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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.
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Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.
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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
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