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We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.

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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

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Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.

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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

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You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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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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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.

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You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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

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

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