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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

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Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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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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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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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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