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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

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

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Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.

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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

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In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.

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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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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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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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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

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Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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