Warren Buffett

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• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

• Our favorite holding period is forever.

• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

• You've been drafted into a war you didn't start, ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depended on your success.

• You need an outstanding manager - you can define that in many ways... but you are looking for the best player out there. We are looking for the best player in this kind of business in the world.

• When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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