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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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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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Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

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The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

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I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

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We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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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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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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