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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.

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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

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In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

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It's never paid to bet against America.

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The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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