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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

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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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It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

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Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.

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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

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It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a diversified group of equities. But people do because they, the lack of confidence. But that's what makes for the attractive prices. If they had their confidence back, they wouldn't be selling at these prices. And believe me, it will come back over time.

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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

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Never invest in a business you don't understand.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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