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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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A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

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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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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

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To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

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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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There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

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As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

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