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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

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A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

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For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

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If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

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If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.

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As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

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

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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them.

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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

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