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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

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If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.

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Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

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