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The key to success is emotional stability.

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My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

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When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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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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If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

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If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

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The wise man once said invest young

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Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

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

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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