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We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

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

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

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My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

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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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The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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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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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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