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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.

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Intensity is the price of excellence.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

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

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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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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

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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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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

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