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

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Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.

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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

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I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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I think confidence will come back.

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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.

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We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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