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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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A stock doesn't know that you own it.
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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
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Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.
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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.
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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.
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What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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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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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
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Never depend on a single source of income.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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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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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.
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