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Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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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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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

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I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

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Accounting is the language of business.

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You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.

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At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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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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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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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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