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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

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