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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.

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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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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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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

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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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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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