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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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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

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

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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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

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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 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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We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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

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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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Is management rational?

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

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