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

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" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "

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

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

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

" Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. "

" Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. "

" The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. "

" In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. "

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

" Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time. "

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

" We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out. "

" Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. "

" If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. "

" I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. "

" Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. "

" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "

" Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. "

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

" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. "

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

" I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "

" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "

" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "

" The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. "

" 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. "

" Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. "

" I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. "

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