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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

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That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

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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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There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

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We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

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When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

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It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. But we - this is a super athlete.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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