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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

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Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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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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I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.

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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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