If the business is doing well, he said, they increase hiring and plow income back into the business.

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Companies can either retain their earnings and plow them back into operations or give a portion of them to shareholders.

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And for some of you who are underwater, you might say, instead of spending that money I can plow that back into equity in my home, and build that back up, which would further strengthen housing prices here in Nevada and around the country.

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Type II: sizzling growth stocks that plow their profits back into the business.

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Buffett famously does not pay a dividend to shareholders, preferring to plow that money back into Berkshire Hathaway, a diverse holding company that has interests in insurance and consumer goods companies.

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