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I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along, I mean, you know, the guys look better all the time, the music sounds better, it's more and more fun, you think why the hell should I leave at quarter of 12. I'll leave at two minutes to 12. But the trouble is, there are no clocks on the wall. And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.

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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

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

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Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

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The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

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AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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