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Probability is the very guide of life.

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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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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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Is management rational?

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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

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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

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

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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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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.

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

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

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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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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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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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