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" I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go. "

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" Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one. "

" Dealing with uncertainty is always a key challenge for investors. But dealing with uncertainty doesn't mean avoiding it - on the contrary, it is often fuzziness about a company's future that creates the type of opportunity bargain-hunting investors cherish. "

" The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically. "

" Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are? "

" I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions. "

" You just have to approach every day and say, 'If you were starting fresh today, what would my portfolio look like?' So that's how we think about it. "

" Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch. "

" I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated. "

" Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash. "

" Many significant stock-price inefficiencies can occur when a company is spun off. "

" There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin. "

" Pence is far too conservative for me, but by all accounts, he's an intelligent, experienced, decent man with no skeletons in his closet. "

" I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. "

" In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone. "

" There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails. "

" We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.' "

" My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered. "

" While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns. "

" There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system. "

" No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed. "

" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "

" Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right? "

" One can't be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others' hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic. "

" It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it. "

" The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing. "

" The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. "

" When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks. "

" I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.' "

" To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn't happen, losses typically follow. "

" Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders. "