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Warren Buffett
Born in 1930 in Omaha, Warren Buffett evolved Graham's value investing and built Berkshire Hathaway into a global conglomerate with ~20% annual returns over fifty years. He pledged 99% of his fortune to charity.
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Warren Buffett's Other Quotes
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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Endure and renounce.
-- Epictetus
Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.
-- Seneca
Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.
-- Epicurus
If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.
-- Xunzi
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-- Benjamin Franklin