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Capitalism is all about somebody coming and trying to take the castle. Now what you need is .... you need a castle that has some durable competitive advantage - some castle that has a moat around it. (Warren Buffett)
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. View quote
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. View quote
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. View quote
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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes. View quote
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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. View quote
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. View quote
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. View quote
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' View quote
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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. View quote
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. (Warren Buffett)
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. View quote
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. View quote
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful". View quote
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If something is not worth doing at all, its not worth doing well. View quote
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I don't have a problem with guilt about money. View quote
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You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace. View quote
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You're doing calculations all the time. View quote
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. View quote
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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well. View quote
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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable. (Warren Buffett)
You have to be open to a possible change of course if you get new information. View quote
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It's a game of a million inferences. There are a lot of things to draw inferences from - cards played and not played. View quote
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The primary test of managerial economic performance is the achievement of a high earnings rate on equity capital employed. View quote
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The free market's the best mechanism ever devised to put resources to their most efficient and productive use. ... The government isn't particularly good at that. But the market isn't so good at making sure that the wealth that's produced is being distributed fairly or wisely. View quote
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