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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.
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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
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If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.
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It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.
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Returns decrease as motion increases.
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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.
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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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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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