"I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing."
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"The probable is what usually happens."
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"The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes."
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"If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness."
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"Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings."
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"Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior."
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"Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire."
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"Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold."
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"Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value."
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"Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices."
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"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them."
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"When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'"
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"Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts."
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"We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund."
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"In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch.""
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"There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance."
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"If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio."
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"With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year."
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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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"If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions."
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