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"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."
"Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future."
"The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage."
"Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general."
"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"
"The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong."
"At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms."
"High valuations entail high risks."
"Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored."
"The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern."
"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."
"Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future."
"If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems."
"As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos."
"To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks."
"Now is always the hardest time to invest."
"Go to bed smarter than when you woke up."
"Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass."
"It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities."