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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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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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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

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The extraordinary business does not require good management.

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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

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We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

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We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

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