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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Is management rational?

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Always invest for the long term.

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Is management candid with the shareholders?

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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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

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The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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