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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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