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The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.

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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

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You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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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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Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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