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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

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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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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

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When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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Always invest for the long term.

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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

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We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

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You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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