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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

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You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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

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