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I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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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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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

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Look for companies with high profit margins.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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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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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

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So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

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And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.

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