Warren Buffett

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• It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.

  Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)

  • Economics
  • Money

• 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

  • Time

• After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them.

  Letters to Shareholders (1957—2012), 1989 Chairman’s Letter

  • Business

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy