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Warren Buffett

(1930) Investor

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Warren Buffett is an investor.

Quick Facts About Warren Buffett

Born: August 30, 1930
Profession: Investor

About Warren Buffett

[Wikidata] American investor, entrepreneur and businessman... | [Wikipedia] Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in the world. According to Forbes, as of January 2026, Buffett's estimated net worth stoo

Quotes by Warren Buffett

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a…

Ability

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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”

Fear

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Backbone

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability…

Business

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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying…

Bigs

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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

Mistake

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I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we…

Big time

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good…

Born

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We…

Buffets

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Accounting

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget…

Figures

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

Investing

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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…

Life

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being…

Buffets

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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market…

Active

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The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; the lord…

God

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

Facts

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of…

Accounting

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We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion…

Billions

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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last…

Bills

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call…

Airline

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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one…

Brilliant

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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Bargains

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

Business

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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even…

Barack

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