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I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

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

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

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