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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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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

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

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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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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

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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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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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

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

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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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