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Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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Never invest in a business you don't understand.

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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.

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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

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Never invest in a business you can't understand

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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

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