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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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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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I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

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Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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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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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.

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

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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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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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Always invest for the long term.

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

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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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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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