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" I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. "
Warren Buffett
Money
Day
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" I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. "
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" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. "
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" I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. "
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" Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'. "
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" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "
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" Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. "
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" If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. "
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" Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. "
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" The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. "
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" Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. "
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" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "
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" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "
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You
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" There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. "
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" The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. "
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" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "
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Through
Never
" Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. "
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" I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism. "
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Capitalism
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" Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time. "
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More
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" The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. "
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Lose
Forget
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" The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. "
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" I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one. "
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Life
Court
" Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. "
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" In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. "
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" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "
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" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "
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" Beware of geeks bearing formulas. "
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Beware
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" It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. "
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" I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. "
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" I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter. "
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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. "
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