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Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome).

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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

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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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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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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

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