Warren Buffett

United States
Born on 30 Aug 1930
Business Magnate / Investor / Philanthropist

We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors... we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

Chairman's Letter to Shareholders (1995)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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