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"There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back."
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"there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers."
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"It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid."
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"Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever."
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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."
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"Growth and value investing are joined at the hip."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style."
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"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)"
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"Probability is the very guide of life."
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"Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed."
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"Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before."
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"The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase."
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"Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth."
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"Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four."
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"The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for."
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"Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community."
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"The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning"
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"There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it"
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