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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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Warren Edward Buffett
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.
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To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
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It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.
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We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.
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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.
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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.
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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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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
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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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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.
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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.
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Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
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Investing is simple, but not easy.
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