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

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

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

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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

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

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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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It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

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A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

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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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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 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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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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

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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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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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

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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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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

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