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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.

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As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

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I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

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People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

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It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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

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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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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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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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When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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