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At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Running, Book, Intelligent

"BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 1998.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

Running, Average, Long

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

Running, What Matters, Use

Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome).

Running, Simple, Ideas

Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

Running, Song, Book

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

Baseball, Running, Watches

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Running, Business, Investing Money

"Warren Buffett hauled before US financial crisis commission" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

Running, Fool, Someday

Quoted in Fortune, 5 Feb. 1996

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

Girl, Running, Investing

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.

Running, Country, Nice

I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Running, Kindness, Business

Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 2009.

I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

Running, Years, People

I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

Running, Strong, Animal

"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.

Running, Long, Hot

Source: time.com

I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

Running, People, Desire

We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

Running, People, Trying

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

Running, Faces, Facts

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

Running, War, Gdp

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

Running, Business, Stress

Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.125, Carolina Academic Press

I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

Running, Thinking, Average

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Running, Dollars, Investing

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Running, Business, Water

Talk with Wharton MBA students, October 2003.

I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

Running, One Day, Idiot

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

Running, Should Have, Long

If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

Running, Past, Talking

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