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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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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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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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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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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

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