

“As practiced, diversification makes very little sense for anyone that knows what they’re doing. Diversification is a protection against ignorance. If you want to make sure nothing bad happens to you relative to the market, sure you should diversify. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that...but in our view, true diversification is simply a confession that you do not truly understand the businesses that you own. If you find just 3 wonderful businesses in your lifetime, you'll get very rich.”
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“Witness the tenacity with which almost all clung to the theory of efficient markets throughout the 1970s and 1980s, dismissively calling powerful facts that refuted it “anomalies.” (I always love explanations of that kind: The Flat Earth Society probably views a ship’s circling of the globe as an annoying, but inconsequential, anomaly.)”
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024

“All things considered, the third best investment I ever made was the purchase of my home, though I would have made far more money had I instead rented and used the purchase money to buy stocks.”
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024

“Our capital is underutilized now, but that will happen periodically. It’s a painful condition to be in — but not as painful as doing something stupid. (I speak from experience.)”
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024
― Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024
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