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I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

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

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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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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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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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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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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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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

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