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I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

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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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You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

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I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

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I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along, I mean, you know, the guys look better all the time, the music sounds better, it's more and more fun, you think why the hell should I leave at quarter of 12. I'll leave at two minutes to 12. But the trouble is, there are no clocks on the wall. And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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