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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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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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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

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Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

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None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

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