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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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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 I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

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The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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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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Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

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There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

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If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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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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I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

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Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

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