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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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Is management rational?

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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 do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

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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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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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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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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.

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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

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The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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