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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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

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[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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The extraordinary business does not require good management.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.

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