"We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters."
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"In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor."
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"I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over."
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"When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing."
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"In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'"
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"If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing."
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"... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism."
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"You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing."
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"You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping."
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"Does the business have a consistent operating history?"
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"Does management resist the institutional imperative?"
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"Is management candid with the shareholders?"
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"For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up."
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"When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business."
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"Is management rational?"
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"If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off."
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"I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that."
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"It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future."
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"A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule."
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"I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter."
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