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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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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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I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

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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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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

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