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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

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Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

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A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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