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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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Valuing a business is part art and part science.

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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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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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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

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The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

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