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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

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

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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You should be unconcerned about short-term price action when you own the securities directly, just as you were unconcerned when you owned them indirectly through BPL. I think about them as businesses, not "stocks", and if the business does all right over the long term, so will the stock.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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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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It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

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You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

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