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The margin of safety

Buffett says that if you were driving a lorry weighing 9,800lbs, you would not feel comfortable driving across a bridge built to carry 10,000lb. There is not enough margin of safety.

Always leave a margin of safety. Don't try to cut things so close. You wait until something kind of shouts at you in the stock market.

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