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Warren Buffett, born on August 30, 1930, is a renowned investor. Known as the 'Oracle of Omaha,' he is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified holding company involved in insurance, railroads, energy, finance, and more. Buffett's investment philosophy emphasizes value investing, and he is known for his long-term investment and stable investment strategies.

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“The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.”

“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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“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.”

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“We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.”

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“What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.”

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“I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.”

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“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”

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“With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when”

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“I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.”

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“If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.”

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“Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.”

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“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

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“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

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“When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.”

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“We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.”

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Born: August 30, 1930
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Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of OmahaRelated source material

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