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I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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Never depend on a single source of income.

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It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

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The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

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The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

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

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I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

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A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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