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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

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

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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

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I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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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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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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