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" Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. "
Warren Buffett
Value
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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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" 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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" 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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" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "
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" Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. "
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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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" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "
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" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
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Game
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" 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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" There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. "
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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 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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