"Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having."
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"The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing."
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"How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?"
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"If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich."
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"If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes."
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"Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you."
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"A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market."
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"Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking."
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"To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people."
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"Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing ."
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"Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well."
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"The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor."
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"Buy a business, don't rent stocks."
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"A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem."
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"I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want."
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"Turnarounds seldom turn."
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"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
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"In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices."
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"Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake."
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"In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy."
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