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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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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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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.

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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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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

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