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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

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The extraordinary business does not require good management.

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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

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What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

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I've never been very fully employed either.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

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

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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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