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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

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

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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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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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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

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