"The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price."
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"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."
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"We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them."
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"Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."
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"It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister"
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"Diversification is your buddy."
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"Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices."
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"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools."
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"The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them."
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"The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short."
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"There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees."
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"A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus."
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"(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it."
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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
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"Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down."
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"Always invest for the long term."
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"When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out."
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"Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts."
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"Valuing a business is part art and part science."
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"Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's."
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