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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

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The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

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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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You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

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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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If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

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It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either.

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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

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