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“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Sentence Something Preposition Which
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
Honesty Cheap People Expensive
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price Pay Value Get
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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.
Money Earn Speaking Nonsense
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Necessary Extraordinary Things Result
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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Risk Come What Know
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Tide Discover Naked When
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Watch this pickpocket! “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Stock Market Hyperactive Enterprise
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Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Stock Buying Quality Marked
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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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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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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Sure is a cheerful color. Guess I’ll have to get used to it.

Sure Cheerful Color Guess
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Time Enemy Wonderful Mediocre
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

River There Hurry Shall
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I’m not interested in cars and my goal is not to make people envious. Don’t confuse the cost of living with the standard of living.

Envious Goal Cost Living
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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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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
Important Investment Yourself Make
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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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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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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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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Hard Brave Very Small
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