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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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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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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

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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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The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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Never get too hung up on mistakes.

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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing. So there are two things needed in the system, the one that's needed overwhelmingly is liquidity. I mean, when people are trying to [unintelligible], there has to be somebody there to buy.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

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The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.

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The wise man once said invest young

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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. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

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