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What counts for most
people
in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.
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I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000
people
to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000
people
from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
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People
will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
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Success in investing doesn't correlate with I. Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other
people
into trouble in investing.
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Putting
people
into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn't be our country's primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
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Draw a circle around the businesses you understand and then eliminate those that fail to qualify on the basis of value, good management and limited exposure to hard times. … Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up. …
People
have been successful investors because they've stuck with successful companies. Sooner or later the market mirrors the business.
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If you invested in a very low cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90% of
people
who start investing at the same time.
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The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible
people
drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
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Wall Street is the only place that
people
ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen
people
as fearful economically as they are right now.
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We intend to continue our practice of working only with
people
whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most
people
in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics (bearing in mind that there are really only three kinds of
people
in the world: those who can count and those who can't).
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I learned to go into business only with
people
whom I like, trust, and admire.
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In the end we must have
people
to match our principles, not the reverse.
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Working with
people
who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe, Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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August 30, 1930
(age 94)
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