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Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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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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An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

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I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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

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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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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

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

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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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