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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

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I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

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You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

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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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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.

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We are in effect making a - to some extent, making a choice between future inflation and getting our - getting off the floor. And we're likely - we're likely to have more inflation in the future as a consequence of the things we do to fight the present situation.

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

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What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

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It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

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If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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