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We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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Never lie under any circumstances.

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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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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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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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The wise man once said invest young

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

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