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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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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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

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

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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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We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

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

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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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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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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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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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