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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

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Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

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To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

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The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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It's easier to create money than to spend it.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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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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Investing is simple, but not easy.

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Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper.

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You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.

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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

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