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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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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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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

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I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he had all these - they had all these types from Wall Street, you know, and they had advanced degrees, and they look very alert, and they came with these - they came with these things that said gamma and alpha and sigma and all that. And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. They've heard that in Europe.

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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

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Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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My father was the best person i've ever known.

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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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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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