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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

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If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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I think confidence will come back.

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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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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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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