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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

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I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

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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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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

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Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

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