“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble… We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.”

— Warren Buffett

http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_27/b3636006.htm "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'" Businessweek (5 July 1999)
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