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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

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Exercise humility and restraint.

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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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