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As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

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I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

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

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map. You may find local companies that have nothing wrong with them at all. A company that I found, Western Insurance Securities, was trading for $3/share when it was earning $20/share!! I tried to buy up as much of it as possible. No one will tell you about these businesses. You have to find them.

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In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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

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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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