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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

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It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.

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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

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Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

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I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

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