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It's easier to create money than to spend it.

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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

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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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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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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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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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In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

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