When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. - Warren Buffett

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The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Warren Buffett

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

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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself. . . The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

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To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

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