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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

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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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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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People should always know better.

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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

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It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

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It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

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