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Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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Our favorite holding period is forever.

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We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

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The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

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If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.

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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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You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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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. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

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Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome).

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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

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Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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