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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

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Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

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If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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