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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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" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "

" Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. "

" 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. "

" The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. "

" In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. "

" 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. "

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

" Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does. "

" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "

" I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about. "

" Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. "

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

" I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. "

" Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. "

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

" The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. "

" 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. "

" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "

" 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. "

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

" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "

" 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. "

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "