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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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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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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

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

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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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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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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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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

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You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

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It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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