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

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

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I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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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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It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.

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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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In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

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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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