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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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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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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
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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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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.
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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.
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We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
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I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.
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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
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The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love.
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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.
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