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

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In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

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Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.

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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

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So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

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We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.

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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

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The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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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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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

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In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

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I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

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When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

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