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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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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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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

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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. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

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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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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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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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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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