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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

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One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

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Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

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It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

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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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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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