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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

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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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With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.

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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

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