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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

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AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

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Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

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

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