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This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

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I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

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No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

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I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

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