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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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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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Probability is the very guide of life.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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

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

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

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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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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

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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 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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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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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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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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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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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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