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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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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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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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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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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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

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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

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

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

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

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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

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Is management candid with the shareholders?

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