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The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

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Look for companies with high profit margins.

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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

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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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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

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The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love.

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Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.

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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

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