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Jimmy Buffett

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WARREN BUFFETT We have three managers at Berkshire who are reasonably young and fully capably of being CEO.
WARREN BUFFETT Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in t...
WARREN BUFFETT Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circum...
WARREN BUFFETT I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient.
WARREN BUFFETT It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like sa...
WARREN BUFFETT I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It'...
WARREN BUFFETT If calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor, I'd have to go back to delivering newsp...
WARREN BUFFETT You've been drafted into a war you didn't start, ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as...
WARREN BUFFETT There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge,...
WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for o...
WARREN BUFFETT If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
WARREN BUFFETT Let us do or die.
WARREN BUFFETT I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...
WARREN BUFFETT Over that time we've been happy with that investment but I've got to tell you I'm happier today. It'...
WARREN BUFFETT Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
WARREN BUFFETT Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely...
WARREN BUFFETT Just looks. Looks exclusively.
WARREN BUFFETT Two rules:1. Preserve the principal2. When in doubt see Rule #1
WARREN BUFFETT The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --...
WARREN BUFFETT Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on...
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