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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

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The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.

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When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

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You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.

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Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.

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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.

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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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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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