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All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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

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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

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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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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

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Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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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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As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

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Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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