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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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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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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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Is management candid with the shareholders?

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

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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

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

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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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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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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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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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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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

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