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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

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An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

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I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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