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From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.

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We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

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For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

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One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.

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Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

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When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

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I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

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The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

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Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.

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I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Businessman

Born: February 4th, 1966

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