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

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

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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

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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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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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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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

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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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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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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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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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