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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Promise Remember Believe Strong
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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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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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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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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dream Long Together Time
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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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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Ignorance Leverage Combine Result
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
Passionate Never Job About
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Promise Forget Thought Leave
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
People Nothing Every Day
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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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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Advantage Being Always Discover
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Sell Things Buy Need
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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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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Lost Know Where However
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Snowball Important Life Long
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Believe Forever Good True
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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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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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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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Come Together Keep Heart
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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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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Hard Brave Very Small
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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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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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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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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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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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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

Course Forest Always Bear
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think

Brave Strong Seem Smart
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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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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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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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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Never Hated Enough Diamonds
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