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“My favourite holding period is forever”

—Warren Buffett

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

—Warren Buffett

“While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past.”

—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

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

—Warren Buffett

“Especially favourable future prospects were regarded by shrewd investors as something to look for but not to pay for”

—Warren Buffett

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”

—Warren Buffett

“Don't work for money, make money work for you.”

—Warren Buffett

“It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.”

—Warren Buffett

“...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”

—Warren Buffett

“Warren talks about these discounted cash flows. I’ve never seen him do one.”

—Charlie Munger

“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”

—Warren Buffett

“If options aren't a form of compensation, what are they? If compensation isn't an expense, what is it? And, if expenses shouldn't go into the calculation of earnings, where in the world should they go?”

—Warren Buffett

“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”

—Warren Buffett

“Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

—Warren Buffett

“The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Berkshire Hathaway under Warren Buffett's leadership, a milestone worth commemorating. The tenure sets a record”

—Warren Buffett