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What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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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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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

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

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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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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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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

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