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

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

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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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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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Never lie under any circumstances.

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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

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When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

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There is no question we have an access stock.

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Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

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