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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

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Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

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Does management resist the institutional imperative?

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With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

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Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

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Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

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So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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

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