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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

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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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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

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It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a diversified group of equities. But people do because they, the lack of confidence. But that's what makes for the attractive prices. If they had their confidence back, they wouldn't be selling at these prices. And believe me, it will come back over time.

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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

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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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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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