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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

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Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as focused investing.
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I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
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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.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.
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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
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It is more important to say no to an opportunity, than to say yes.
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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
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The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.
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The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you
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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic. And then they talk me down.
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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.
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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
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We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.
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