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There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

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It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

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Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

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In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

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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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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

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

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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