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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

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If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

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Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

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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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Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

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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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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

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The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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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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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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