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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts the Depression a dozen or so recessions and financial panics oil shocks a flu epidemic and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
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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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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.
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Valuing a business is part art and part science.
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I know that Congress will do the right thing.
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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
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No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.
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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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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.
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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.
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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
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