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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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" 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. "

Warren Buffett

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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. "

" Our favorite holding period is forever. "

" Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. "

" You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Beware of geeks bearing formulas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Warren Buffett

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

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

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

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

" A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. "

" 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. "

" Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. "

" 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. "