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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

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The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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I never invest in anything that I don't understand.

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I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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