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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

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It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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Be brave when others are afraid, and afraid when others are brave.

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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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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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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