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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.