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Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

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I think confidence will come back.

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

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It's easier to create money than to spend it.

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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

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