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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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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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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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The extraordinary business does not require good management.

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

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Always invest for the long term.

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

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

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