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How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.
Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.
It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.
Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better
Expect hogs to eat a lot more in the presence of a lot of hog wash.
If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich.
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there
Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well.
The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.
There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.
I'm right, and you're smart, and sooner or later you'll see I'm right.
There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.
It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.
Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.
If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.
If you have the opportunities of Berkshire, an investment in gold is dumb.
Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.
Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.
Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.
Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.
If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.
At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.
There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.
Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.
Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.