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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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" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

" Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. "

" Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. "

" There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. "

" Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'. "

" Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. "

" 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. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "

" 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. "

" Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. "

" 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. "

" I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism. "

" Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. "

" I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "

" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. "

" I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. "

" 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. "

" If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. "

" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "

" Value is what you get. "

" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "

" I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "