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Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

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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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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

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My father was the best person i've ever known.

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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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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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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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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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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

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... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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