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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

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Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

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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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I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.

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People should always know better.

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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

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