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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.

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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

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

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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

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Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

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What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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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 own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

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