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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Please all, and you will please none.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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Business is business, no child's play.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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