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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

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The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

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If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

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Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

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I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

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Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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