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Warren Buffett
said
In my view, for most people, the best thing to do is to own the S&P 500 index fund. People will try and sell you other things because there’s more money in it for them if they do.
— 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
- Fame80.7
- Momentum10.0
- United States rank#240
Source-basedFalling
- Fame80.7
- Momentum10.0
- United States rank#240
- Investors rank#2
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Born 1930 · age 96United States
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Updated 2026-06-25
He turned a failing textile mill into a $1 trillion conglomerate and his own stake into $148.9 billion — not through bets or leverage, but by buying good companies cheap and waiting. The attention comes from the rarity: discipline that lasts 70 years.
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Born in Omaha in 1930 to a congressman father, Buffett fixated on business young and studied at Wharton, then Nebraska, then Columbia, where Benjamin Graham taught him value investing. He launched Buffett Partnership Ltd. in 1956, bought a struggling textile company called Berkshire Hathaway, and by 1970 had flipped it into a holding company with himself as chairman and majority owner. Charlie Munger came aboard in 1978 as vice-chairman. From that platform Buffett built one of the world's largest conglomerates, earning the "Oracle of Omaha" label for returns that compounded across decades whil…
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Warren Buffett
said
It's a game of a million inferences. There are a lot of things to draw inferences from — cards played and not played. These inferences tell you something about the probabilities.
— On the game of bridge, as quoted in Forbes (2 June 1997); also quoted in The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus
Warren Buffett
said
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
— As quoted in Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995), by Roger Lowenstein, p. 77
Warren Buffett
said
I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
— As quoted in Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995), by Roger Lowenstein, p. 77
Warren Buffett
said
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Statement of January 1991, as quoted in Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (2007) by Andrew Kilpatrick
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