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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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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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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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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

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I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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