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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

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The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

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If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

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Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

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A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

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We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

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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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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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