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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

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What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

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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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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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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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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

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Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

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Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

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