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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

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