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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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

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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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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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If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

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It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.

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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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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

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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 measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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