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Being a Good Investor

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

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Investing

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Success in Life

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad...

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Success

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Charlie Munger’s Education

To this day, I have never taken a course anywhere, in chemistry, economics, psychology, or business.

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Half-and-half Management

I don’t think it would work well to have a half-and-half management. We don’t need an operating guy; we have...

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Business

Valuing a Stock

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

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Business Math

The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math.

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Business

Easy Investment Predictions

Berkshire is in the business of making easy predictions. If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

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Good Businesses vs. Bad Businesses

The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after...

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Investing

Invest in a Business a Fool Can Run

Invest in a business any fool can run, because someday a fool will. If it won’t stand a little mismanagement,...

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Investing

A Great Business at a Fair Price

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

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Business

Playing Poker

Playing poker in the army and as a young lawyer honed my business skills.

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Business

The Winning System

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and/or minimizing one or a...

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Business

Reading Newspapers and Magazines

By regularly reading business newspapers and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.

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Admiring the Founders

We’ve bought business after business because we admire the founders and what they’ve done with their lives.

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Business

Rare in Business

It’s a rare business that doesn’t have a way worse future than it has a past.

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Business

An Immensely Strong Business

It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it’s an immensely strong business.

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Business

Buying a Great Business is Tough

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn’t solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

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Business

Passion vs. Competence

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshire is full of people who have a peculiar passion...

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Business

Selling to Hedge Funds

I don’t think there’s any business that we’ve bought that would have sold itself to a hedge fund. There’s a...

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Business

Wonderful New Inventions

There are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a...

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Business

How Bankruptcies Are Handled

I think much of [how bankruptcy is handled] is pretty horrible. It’s a situation where courts themselves have gone into...

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Business

Great Things in Business

Great things in business are never done by one person; they are done by a team of people.

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Relatively Rich

We’re rich in relation to the business that we’re doing.

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