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" Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. "
Warren Buffett
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" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
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" 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. "
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" Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. "
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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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" 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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" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "
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" The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. "
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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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" 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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" Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. "
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" We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. "
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" Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. "
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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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People
Political
" 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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Day
Years
" Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. "
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Price
Pay
" 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. "
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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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" Beware of geeks bearing formulas. "
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Beware
Bearing
" We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' "
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Someone
Name
" 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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Life
Wrong
Things
" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "
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Market
Look
" The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. "
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" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "
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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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" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "
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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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Forget
First
" A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. "
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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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" 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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Better
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