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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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Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

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Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

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Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

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Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

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Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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