Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

Warren Buffett is a renowned investor and philanthropist known for his value investing philosophy and leadership at Berkshire Hathaway.

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Born
August 30, 1930
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"The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees."

Bridges Behaviour Information
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"I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky."

Philosophy Loss Errors
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"We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%."

War Yield Years
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"My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror."

Mirrors Ideas Decision
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"We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself."

Mistake Decision Made
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"Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning."

Intelligent Sound Facts
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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. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement."

Business Bingo Gob
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"Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end."

Wise Men Doe
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"The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly."

England Century China
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"We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets."

Games Suffering Investment
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"Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children."

Children Mistake Things In Life
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"When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it."

Home Cash Bills
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"We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around."

Country Moving Thinking
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"Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth"."

Competition May Labels
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"Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them"

Pieces Paper Great Business
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"... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in."

Should Have Decision Important
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"We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now."

Years Opinion Interest
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"I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over."

Thinking Government Investing
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"If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter."

Circles Competence Wells
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"I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that."

Jobs People Helping
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