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Always invest for the long term.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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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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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

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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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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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

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

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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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 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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Is management candid with the shareholders?

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

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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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