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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

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Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

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The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that.

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We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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The best investment you can make is in yourself.

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

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