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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

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The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

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An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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Valuing a business is part art and part science.

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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

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