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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

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

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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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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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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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

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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

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I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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