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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

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We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

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An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

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You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

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Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

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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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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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Does the business have a consistent operating history?

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