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The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

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

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

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The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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Always invest for the long term.

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

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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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Is management rational?

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

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