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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. "
Warren Buffett
Think
You
Build
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" 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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" The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. "
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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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" If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. "
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" Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. "
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" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "
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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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" You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. "
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" Value is what you get. "
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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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" In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. "
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" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "
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" Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. "
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" Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. "
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" There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it. "
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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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" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "
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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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" 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 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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" We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out. "
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" You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. "
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" It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. "
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" Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. "
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" We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. "
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" Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. "
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