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

Something Perfectly Market Shutdown
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

World Courage Quality Honor
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Stock Understand Market Content
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like

Fun Long Difficult Lunch
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
Passionate Never Job About
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Saving Spend Left What
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Advantage Being Always Discover
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Appear Patient Simply Fluff
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Writing Check Commitment Conversation
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Thing Make Different That
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Forecast Future Nothing Deal
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Piglet Though Small Heart
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Stand Bridge Bottom Beneath
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Value Along Listen Hear
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Just Animal Large Kindness
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Pay Where Without Might
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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Happen Way Place Forest
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Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.

What Before That Mixed
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Little Other Make Difference
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Always Watch Forest Mistake
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What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

Learn History People That
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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
Money Dose Rationality Sedates
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end

Wise Fool Beginning End
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Good Come Well Poor
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
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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.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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Having first-rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Important People Report Team
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Never Hated Enough Diamonds
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

Divorce Lawyer Friend Diamonds
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and

Language Married Nationality Dictionary
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Hunger Descendant Temper Have
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Happy Better Survive Positive
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Block Doth Stand Fath
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