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The Investor's Goal
by
Warren Buffett
Your
goal
as an
investor
should simply be to
purchase
, at a rational
price
, a part
interest
in an easily-understandable
business
whose
earnings
are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from
now
.
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