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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

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I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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It's a nightmare to administer some of this sort of thing, but I want to tell the shareholders of Berkshire, to the percent we own marketable securities or things for which there are market, even if those markets - I want to tell them what it's all about.

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If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

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

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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A stock doesn't know that you own it.

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You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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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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The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.

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