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

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I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

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Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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Accounting is the language of business.

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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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

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I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.

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The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

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The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

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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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This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

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