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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

Warren Buffett

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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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Common
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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25 once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
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I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.
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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'
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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
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With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.
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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.
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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.
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Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.
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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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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.
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I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.
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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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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
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There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.
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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.
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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.
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