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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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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

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If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

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A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

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

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What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

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I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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The key to success is emotional stability.

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There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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