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Investing is simple, but not easy.

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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

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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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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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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

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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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You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

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We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.

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I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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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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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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