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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life. The calculation of intrinsic value, though, is not so simple. As our definition suggests, intrinsic value is an estimate rather than a precise figure, and it is additionally an estimate that must be changed if interest rates move or forecasts of future cash flows are revised.

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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

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I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset by far. Then follow your passion; you want to be really excited to get out of bed every morning.

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Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

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We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

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Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

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

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We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets.

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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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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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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

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An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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