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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.
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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.
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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
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Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that.
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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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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.
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Never invest in a business you don't understand.
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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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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
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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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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.
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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.
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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.
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