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

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.

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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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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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If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

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The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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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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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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