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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks..If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself? If the bank can't do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we'll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does not take this money from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.