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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

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

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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

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I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he had all these - they had all these types from Wall Street, you know, and they had advanced degrees, and they look very alert, and they came with these - they came with these things that said gamma and alpha and sigma and all that. And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. They've heard that in Europe.

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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

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Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

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We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

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Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.

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