Warren Buffett
United States
Born on 30 Aug 1930
Business Magnate / Investor / Philanthropist
Born on 30 Aug 1930
Business Magnate / Investor / Philanthropist
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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.
Your goal as an investor...to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher... years from now. Over time, you will find only a few companies that meet these standards�so when you see one... buy a meaningful amount of stock.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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
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."
Essays
Essays