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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

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You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

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If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

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

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.

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