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• Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

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  Mistake, Poor Decisions, Games

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• We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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  Mistake, Decision, Made

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• I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.

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  Summer, War, Losing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

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  Keys, Degrees, Alternatives

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

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  Wall, Streets, Inactivity

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• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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  Business, Long, Giving

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• Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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  Sloth, Investment, Hallmark

  "In Soccer and Investing, Bias Is Toward Action" by Carl Richards, bucks.blogs.nytimes.com. May 13, 2013.

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• My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Ideas, Decision

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• ...I will give you two pieces of advice. Invest as much in yourself as you can; you are your own best asset by far. Then follow your passion; you want to be really excited to get out of bed every morning.

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  Morning, Passion, Two

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• Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

  Warren Buffett

  Doctors, Two, Advice

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1987.

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• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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  Business, War, Investing

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

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  Needs, Investing, May

  "7 Warren Buffett Quotes For Active Investors". www.seeitmarket.com. November 26, 2014.

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• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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  Business, War, Doe

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• ... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

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  Should Have, Decision, Important

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• The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

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  Machines, Investing, Return

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• We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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  Investing, Timing, More Money

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• But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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  Home, Government, Media

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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  Kids, Liquor Stores, Hungry

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• Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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  Business, Love You, Purpose

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• We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

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  Bigs, Payoff, Certain

  "Why Won't Buffett Invest in Tech Stocks?". The Motley Fool, www.fool.com. March 06, 2000.

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• My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

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  Forever, My Favorite

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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  Ignorance, Investing Money, Interesting

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• The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

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  Circles, Important, Term

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• With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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  Worry, Focus, What If

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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  Knowing, Long, Risk

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