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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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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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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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Is management rational?

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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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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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Is management candid with the shareholders?

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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

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If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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

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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

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The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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