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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.
It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.
When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.
We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.
The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.
A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.
Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.
The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.
The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.
I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.
During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
The extraordinary business does not require good management.
Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.
Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.
A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.
The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.
People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.
When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.
That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.
I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.
If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.
We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.