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Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.

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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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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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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

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The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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