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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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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

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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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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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When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

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Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.

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

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

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