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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

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I think confidence will come back.

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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

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You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

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Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

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If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

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There is no question we have an access stock.

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