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“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

—Warren Buffett

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“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

“what’s good for customers is good for shareholders.”

“Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.”

—Warren Buffett

“I am not a businessman, I am an artist”

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“Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we’ve seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.”

—Warren Buffett

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

—Warren Buffett

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

—Warren Buffett

“Buy the dip.”

—Warren Buffett

“At Berkshire, full reporting means giving you the information that we would wish you to give to us if our positions were reversed.”

—Warren Buffett

“Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: “Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.“”

—Warren Buffett

“Charlie and I would follow a buy-and-hold policy even if we ran a tax-exempt institution.”

—Warren Buffett

“For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.”

—Warren Buffett

“Despite our policy of candor, we will discuss our activities in marketable securities only to the extent legally required. Good investment ideas are rare, valuable and subject to competitive appropriation just as good product or business acquisition ideas are.”

—Warren Buffett

“The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

—Warren Buffett

“If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”

—Warren Buffett